On Wednesday 14 April 2010 02:17:14 Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: > On 13/04/10 12:24 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > My new laptop has an Intel WXGA video card - and I have no more detail > > than that. dpms identifies it as an "LCD panel 1280x1024", yet X > > insists that 1024x768 is the best it can do. That produces horrible > > distortions, so it's important to get this sorted. > > > > I tried commenting out the dpms option and adding a Modes line, but still > > I'm stuck with the same display. Running xrandr in konsole gives me > > > > Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 > > default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm > > > > 1024x768 61.0* > > 800x600 61.0 > > 640x480 60.0 > > 1024x600 0.0 > > > > Before I tried to fix things I think I was seeing 1024 x 600, as the > > 1024x768 does fill my screen, whereas the original display was taller > > than the screen. > > > > Any ideas what might be causing the problem, and what I could do about > > it? > > I have just had similar issue two days ago with dual setup of 1920x1200 > displays on Radeon driver. For some silly reason login X chooses to > default to 1280x720 (!). This is on Fedora 11. I have yet to file a bug. > > Here's how I sorted it out: > > Use cvt command to get modeline data, e.g.: > > $ cvt 1920 1200 60 > # 1920x1200 59.88 Hz (CVT 2.30MA) hsync: 74.56 kHz; pclk: 193.25 MHz > Modeline "1920x1200_60.00" 193.25 1920 2056 2256 2592 1200 1203 1209 > 1245 -hsync +vsync > > Now edit your ~/.bash_profile and add: > > xrandr --newmode 1920x1200 193.25 1920 2056 2256 2592 1200 1203 1209 1245 > -hsync +vsync xrandr --addmode DVI-0 1920x1200 > xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1920x1200 > > Note: if the xrandr --new mode complains something about X resources, > change the name of the mode to something like 1920x1200_1. > > Note 2: In your case, s/1920x1200/1280x1024/g in above examples. > Noted, in case it comes in handy later, thanks :-) It looks as though my first task is to get the Intel driver in and recognising the card. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100414/3c70fdeb/attachment.bin
