I think I may have answered my own question. As I was rereading my post to the list, I saw the option "DisplayHeight480." Would uncommenting that option fix my problem? (Sure wish I'd brought the laptop to work with me today!) Thanks, Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: theodore.schulze@us.army.mil Date: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:20 am Subject: Configuring X for 8.9 inch Laptop Display > Hello, > > I am looking for help to set up X on a Sony PCG-C1XS laptop. The > difficulty centers on the laptop's non-standard 8.9 inch display. > I > have used a number of tools, including xf86config, XF86Setup and > xfree86config, to try to set it up, but in each case, the end > result is > a setup that believes it is dealing with a 1024x768 display, when > in > actuality, what I have is 1024x480. > > The Sony PCG-C1XS uses a NeoMagic MediaMagic 256AV chipset with > 2.5M > RAM. I had it working at one time with SuSE 7.x, but since I > switched > to Slackware 8.1, I am not able to get it working. There are a > couple > of web sites linked to the Linux on Laptops web site that > themselves > have links to XF86Config files, but these are all XFree86 3.x > configuration files, not XFree86 4.x which I have on this machine. > > Looking through the man page for XF86Config, I don't see (or have > overlooked) any mention of how to set the resolution for a non- > standard > display. > > Can you all offer me some advice on where further I could look? > Here > is a copy of my XF86Config as built by xf86config with the non- > relevant > details removed: > > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "XFree86 Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > [snip] > EndSection > > > Section "Module" > Load "record" > Load "extmod" > Load "dbe" > Load "dri" > Load "glx" > Load "xtrap" > Load "type1" > Load "speedo" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > [snip] > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > [snip] > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > ModelName "Monitor Model" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "NoLinear" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] > #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] > #Option "noMMIO" # [<bool>] > #Option "internDisp" # [<bool>] > #Option "externDisp" # [<bool>] > #Option "LcdCenter" # [<bool>] > #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoStretch" # [<bool>] > #Option "pciBurst" # [<bool>] > #Option "Rotate" # [<str>] > #Option "StrangeLockups" # [<bool>] > #Option "DisplayHeight480" # [<bool>] > #Option "progLcdModeRegs" # [<bool>] > #Option "progLcdModeStretch" # [<bool>] > #Option "overrideValidateMode" # [<bool>] > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "neomagic" > VendorName "Neomagic" > BoardName "NM2200" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 16 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 1 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 4 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 8 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 15 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > I would be grateful for your help. > > Cheers, > Sean > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
