X with vesa at 1680x1050 possible?

[Patrick Lists]

Hi all,

I have a laptop with an ATI X1300 chip and a 1680x1050 screen. Just
installed FC6 on it and was messing with X. The radeon driver does not
seem to work so I tried the vesa driver. But I can't seem to get it to
use 1680x1050 using the vesa driver. It insists on 1400x1050. Does
anyone know if the vesa driver can display 1680x1050?  If so how would I
make it do that?

Thanks,
Patrick

[GaryCarr]

I have had good luck installing the ATI Linux drivers on Red Hat. Try:

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html

Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a laptop with an ATI X1300 chip and a 1680x1050 screen. Just
> installed FC6 on it and was messing with X. The radeon driver does not
> seem to work so I tried the vesa driver. But I can't seem to get it to
> use 1680x1050 using the vesa driver. It insists on 1400x1050. Does
> anyone know if the vesa driver can display 1680x1050?  If so how would I
> make it do that?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick

[Patrick Lists]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:59 -0600, GaryCarr wrote:
> I have had good luck installing the ATI Linux drivers on Red Hat. Try:
>
> http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html

Me too. Just got the latest drivers and they seem to work fine. Would
have preferred to use the Open Source one but I guess AMD/ATI still need
to see the light when it comes to releasing R500 code.
> Patrick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a laptop with an ATI X1300 chip and a 1680x1050 screen. Just
> > installed FC6 on it and was messing with X. The radeon driver does not
> > seem to work so I tried the vesa driver. But I can't seem to get it to
> > use 1680x1050 using the vesa driver. It insists on 1400x1050. Does
> > anyone know if the vesa driver can display 1680x1050?  If so how would I
> > make it do that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Patrick

problem with starting beryl

[Charles Li]

Hi,
I have installed beryl 0.21, on fc6.  When I try to
start beryl, it does some check and then logs me out
of the session, and I have to sign on again.  Beryl
was not started.  I believe I saw some error, before
the session terminated, I did not get a chance to see
the error.  How do I see what error is causing the
beryl to fail?  I use redirect the command to a log
file, but it did not show the error.  Please help.

Thanks.

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problem with starting beryl

[Chris Mohler]

On 3/30/07, Charles Li  wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed beryl 0.21, on fc6.  When I try to
> start beryl, it does some check and then logs me out
> of the session, and I have to sign on again.  Beryl
> was not started.  I believe I saw some error, before
> the session terminated, I did not get a chance to see
> the error.  How do I see what error is causing the
> beryl to fail?  I use redirect the command to a log
> file, but it did not show the error.  Please help.
>
> Thanks.

What video card do you have? (run lspci as root if unsure)

What driver are you using? (look in xorg.conf to find out - "Driver" section)

Do you have direct rendering? ('glxinfo | grep -i direct' to find out)

Chris

problem with starting beryl

[Charles Li]

--- Chris Mohler  wrote:
> On 3/30/07, Charles Li  wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have installed beryl 0.21, on fc6.  When I try
>
> to
> > start beryl, it does some check and then logs me
>
> out
> > of the session, and I have to sign on again.
>
> Beryl
> > was not started.  I believe I saw some error,
>
> before
> > the session terminated, I did not get a chance to
>
> see
> > the error.  How do I see what error is causing the
> > beryl to fail?  I use redirect the command to a
>
> log
> > file, but it did not show the error.  Please help.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> What video card do you have? (run lspci as root if
> unsure)
>
> What driver are you using? (look in xorg.conf to
> find out - "Driver" section)
>
> Do you have direct rendering? ('glxinfo | grep -i
> direct' to find out)
>
> Chris
>
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video card:
[root@localhost charles]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Host
Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 LPC
Bridge (rev a6)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce3 SMBus (rev
a4)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB
1.1 (rev a5)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB
1.1 (rev a5)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB
2.0 (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia
Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)
00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev
a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 IDE
(rev a5)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI
Bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 AGP
Bridge (rev a4)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology
Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation
NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments
TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor
Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation
BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC
Card Controller (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC
Card Controller (rev 01)
02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI1620
Firmware Loading Function (rev 01)

** how do I read this?  Does it tell me I have a
nVidia?

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
EndSection

[root@localhost charles]# /usr/bin/glxinfo|grep -i
direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

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problem with starting beryl

[Tim]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 19:18 -0700, Charles Li wrote:
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nv"
> EndSection

You're using Fedora's own simple NVidia driver.  If you were using the
one from NVidia, it'd say:  Driver "nvidia"

[William Cohen]

Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a laptop with an ATI X1300 chip and a 1680x1050 screen. Just
> installed FC6 on it and was messing with X. The radeon driver does not
> seem to work so I tried the vesa driver. But I can't seem to get it to
> use 1680x1050 using the vesa driver. It insists on 1400x1050. Does
> anyone know if the vesa driver can display 1680x1050?  If so how would I
> make it do that?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick

I had a similar problem when installing FC6 on my laptop with 1680x1050 screen; 
it kept wanting to default to 1400x1050 You might check to see what the default 
screen setting is with xrandr. If it is not set to 1680x1050 you might change 
the setting with "xrand --screen ...".

-Will