On 04.07.2014 00:26, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700 don fisher wrote:
Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to have been replaced by something I cannot find.
You don't, it "just works" (except when it doesn't). All the info is supposed to come from the EDID reported by the monitor. Any tweaks are done at runtime via xrandr, xinput, etc. (which may or may not be supported by some GUI setting tool that (maybe) remembers and reproduces the settings via things like the gnome settings daemon).
On my system at home, I have to override the EDID info to make the system believe I have a 47 inch monitor and not a 7 inch monitor with incredibly dense resolution :-). This has all the same info you used to be able to put in xorg.conf, but now it comes in a semi-documented binary file with no good tools to edit it instead of an ascii text file. Such an improvement :-(.
At least https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt works, right Tom-Sung? :)
$ curl -s https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=99224 | monitor-parse-edid Name: TOMSUNG EISA ID: TOM0469 EDID version: 1.3 EDID extension blocks: 1 Screen size: 102.0 cm x 57.4 cm (46.08 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78) Gamma: 2.2 Digital signal Max video bandwidth: 230 MHz
HorizSync 26-76 VertRefresh 23-60
# Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 67.5 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 47 dpi) ModeLine "1920x1080" 148.5 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync
# Monitor supported modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 47.7 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 33 dpi) ModeLine "1360x768" 85.5 1360 1424 1536 1792 768 771 777 795 +hsync +vsync
Besides "Screen size: 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm (7.23 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78)" is a known issue for some of the Samsung Smart(?) TVs, so it is best to contact Samsung directly.
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