Re: Problem with screen resolution in F8

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On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 22:00 -0500, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The first time I logged in after installing F8, the background picture covered the entire screen but the top menu bar and bottom task bar only extended about 2/3 the width of the screen and the bottom task bar was not at the bottom of the screen but about 1/2 the way up.
> 
> After playing with the screen resolutions, I have 1152x864@60Hz and the bars extend all the way across the screen and the task bar is at the bottom.
> 
> I have 2 problems:
> 1) The 1st 1/2 inch of the screen is missing of the left side which, for some reason is really bugging me.
> 2) The resolution I really want is 1280x1024@75Hz. This is a dual boot machine at 1280x1024@75Hz is what I use in Windows
> 
> Can anyone give me some ideas as to why I can't get my desired resolution?
> 
> Below is some info from Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
> I have an ATI Radeon X800 PCIE graphics card and a generic 20" LCD monitor.
> 
> If I look in my Xorg.0.log file I see that the resolution I want is listed but then I see this line for output DVI-1:
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range)
> 
> and when it prints out the probed modes for DVI-1, 1280x1024 is not there. A similar thing happens for DVI-0 and this time the reasons given are:
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
> 
> However, when the probed modes are printed this line shows up:
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x75.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz)
> 
> Near the bottom of the log, it says:
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-1 using initial mode 1152x864
> (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 using initial mode 1152x864
> 
> My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has this in it:
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
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change the 'Modes' line (insert "1280x1024" for the first mode)

Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

restart X or restart computer if you don't know how to restart X

xorg radeon on Fedora 8 doesn't seem to work very well (my experience)

You might search last weeks list for commentary on adding Livna and
installing kmod-fglrx

Craig

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