Re: [XFree86] widescreen 1680x1050 resolution

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Hey Dan and Mark,

thanks for the adivice. I tried what you guys said. I updated XFree to 4.3.0 and installed the newest NVIDIA drivers. I added the Modeline you suggest. However, it still displays a stretch 1280x1024 despite me choosing 1680x1050 in XFreeConfig. I will paste the relevant portions of my XFreeConfig file.

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Apple Cinema"
DisplaySize 427 267
HorizSync 63.6 - 63.6
VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
ModeLine "1680x1050" 147.1 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
ModeLine "1680x1050" 129.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1680 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1680x1050" 151.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1680 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1680x1050" 162.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1680 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1680x1050" 184.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1680 +hsync +vsync
Option "dpms"
EndSection


Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     16
        SubSection "Display"
                Modes    "800x600"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection

amerson

At 02:22 PM 9/12/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Since you are in the process of a RedHat 8 install anyway, it would be worth it to install RedHat 9 instead. The install process is better than previous versions, although you'll still have to install the new nvidia driver and customize your XF86Config file as Mark instructed.

Mark Vojkovich wrote:

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, amerson wrote:



I have an Apple Cinema 20" display running on windows. I tried installing RedHat Linux 8.0, got the newest drivers from NVIDIA. The screen's optimal resolution is 1680x1050 but right now, it does a stretched 1280x1024. In the XFree86Config file, the graphics card still has a driver of "vesa", chanigng it to "nv" causes the display to not work at all.


The "nv" driver didn't support flat panels until XFree86 4.3.0,
and the "vesa" driver can only do canned standard modes. I think RH 8 only has 4.2.0 or 4.2.1.




any thoughts on how I can tweak XFree86 to accept this resolution?


You either need to upgrade to 4.3.0 (or newer) where the "nv" driver will support flat panels, or you should use NVIDIA's binary
drivers.


For either you'll need to specify a custom modeline like:

 Modeline "1680x1050"  147.14  1680 1784 1968 2256  1050 1051 1054 1087
  since XFree86 doesn't have any builtin 1680x1050 modes.

Mark.

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