fglrx 7.12 resolution problem
Christoph Höger
choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Mon Dec 24 09:00:11 UTC 2007
Am Montag, den 24.12.2007, 09:45 +0100 schrieb Christoph Höger:
> Am Sonntag, den 23.12.2007, 22:15 -0700 schrieb Craig White:
> > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 20:43 -0800, Tod Merley wrote:
> > > On Dec 23, 2007 3:24 PM, William Murray <W.J.Murray at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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
> >
> > > Hi Bill!
> > >
> > > I think some answers may be here:
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fglrx
> > >
> > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx
> > >
> > > Please take note of all the resources and links mentioned in these.
> > >
> > > May God give you strength, you may be doing a bit of "patching" before
> > > it is all over.
> > ----
> > Tod,
> >
> > You're becoming like Karl...perhaps you shouldn't offer an answer if you
> > don't know.
> >
> > To OP (Bill)
> >
> > Try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >
> > see the section that looks like this...
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen0"
> > Device "Videocard0"
> > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > DefaultDepth 24
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 24
> > Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720"
> > "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> > (Note that the 'Modes' section is all on one line but will wrap into
> > multiple lines in this e-mail.)
> >
> > Add "1400x1050" into that line (make it the first resolution because the
> > first listed is the first tried).
> >
> > Then see what happens when you log out and log back in...I don't think
> > it will take a restart to change it.
> >
> > Craig
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently run into the same problem. Bad thing: There is no mode-line
> at my xorg.conf anymore (first, I thought "uh, did they get all that
> fancy autoconf stuff running?", but now I think its just a .rpm bug or
> something like that)
>
> regards
>
> christoph
>
Ok,
forget about modesetting, somehow fglrx won't accept that. So to get
back my sharp resolution I had to switch to VESA (radeonhd, we are
really waiting for you!)
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