fglrx 7.12 resolution problem

William Murray W.J.Murray at rl.ac.uk
Sun Dec 23 23:24:38 UTC 2007


  Hi all,
        My laptop has a 1400x1050 screen, always been fine. The latest
fglrx only seems to give me up to 1280x1024. 
Looking in Xorg.0.log shows:
   (II) fglrx(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
(II) fglrx(0): 640x480 at 60Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 800x600 at 60Hz
(II) fglrx(0): 1024x768 at 60Hz
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
(II) fglrx(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) fglrx(0): #0: hsize: 640  vsize 480  refresh: 60  vid: 16433
(II) fglrx(0): #1: hsize: 800  vsize 600  refresh: 60  vid: 16453
(II) fglrx(0): #2: hsize: 1024  vsize 768  refresh: 60  vid: 16481
(II) fglrx(0): #3: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 60  vid: 16497
(II) fglrx(0): #4: hsize: 1280  vsize 960  refresh: 60  vid: 16513
(II) fglrx(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) fglrx(0): clock: 108.0 MHz   Image Size:  0 x 0 mm
(II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1400  h_sync: 1448  h_sync_end 1560 h_blank_end
1688 h_border: 0
(II) fglrx(0): v_active: 1050  v_sync: 1051  v_sync_end 1055 v_blanking:
1066 v_border: 0

  Does anyone know what an additional Video Mode is, and how to write an
xorg.conf which will use it?
        Thank you,
               Bill




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