On Tuesday 03 November 2009 23:31:20 David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader). [the /arch/setup menu autoadvances when you leave Configure System and if you click Done and downarrow anticipating moving to the next item, you can easily miss configuring the bootloader (I did ;-)] > > The problem I have is that my laptop is stuck in 1152x864 resolution. For the text install that is fantastic, but when you start kde -- not so good. (should be 1440x900) The card is an RS690M (radeon 1200) and the radeon driver was loaded by default. The modules configured are: > > 22:46 alchemy:~> lsmod | grep rad > radeon 716352 1 > ttm 43776 1 radeon > drm 191392 2 radeon,ttm > i2c_algo_bit 6980 1 radeon > i2c_core 25664 4 radeon,i2c_piix4,drm,i2c_algo_bit > > THE WEIRD PART... > > I have Arch on the drive I just took out and it goes to 1440x900 just fine. > > I am not using an xorg.conf, so I am pretty much at X's mercy. I use /etc/rc.d/kdm start from runlevel 3 to start kdm. It goes to 1152x864 instead of 1440x900. I don't understand how to control the new KMS stuff. I have check the kde4 settings for Display Size and Orientations, but the maximum allowed is 1152x864: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/kde4-syssettings-display.jpg > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/kde4-syssettings-1164.png > > What is the trick? > > Also, when I try to start xdm from inittab with the default x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon > I get the disabling for 5 seconds, respawning too fast error. So, what's the trick here? I bet there related... > > I have put the Xorg.0.log on the server as well: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/Xorg.0.log > > It looks like the dang thing is using the vesa driver?? I'll add radeon to modules, but It's loaded already so I don't think that's going to help. Anybody know what's happening here? This is the first install where I haven't installed KDE3, so i don't know if that is a part of the issue either. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need to see anything else, just let me know. Thanks. > > > Listmates, I have more info. It looks like an xdpy problem: screen #0: print screen: no dimensions: 1152x864 pixels (370x231 millimeters) resolution: 79x95 dots per inch depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 root window id: 0x101 depth of root window: 24 planes number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap: 0x20 default number of colormap cells: 256 preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215 options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO largest cursor: 1152x864 current input event mask: 0x5a403c ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask KeymapStateMask StructureNotifyMask SubstructureNotifyMask SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask number of visuals: 64 default visual id: 0x21 resolutions should be 99x99. How do I fix this ??
