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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:37:50
Message-Id: 4C744990.8000800@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg? by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >>
5 >> Yah, I might have some luck with that. Since I'm years out of practice
6 >> fooling with this stuff (last seen in 2002) can someone point me at the
7 >> tools for
8 >> 1) Computing a modeline (I understand the quality varies a lot)
9 >> 2) Configuring an xorg.conf
10 >>
11 > Check out x11-apps/amlc -- it has an interactive modeline generator
12 > where you tell it the aspect ratio& size of your screen and it spits
13 > out modelines for you. You'll still need to fill in the
14 > HSync/VSync/Clock speed stuff.
15 >
16 >
17 >
18
19 Does this help any?
20
21 Section "Screen"
22 Identifier "Screen0"
23 Device "Card0"
24 Monitor "Monitor0"
25 Option "DPMS" "TRUE"
26 SubSection "Display"
27 Viewport 0 0
28 Depth 24
29 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
30 EndSubSection
31 SubSection "Display"
32 Viewport 0 0
33 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
34 EndSubSection
35 SubSection "Display"
36 Viewport 0 0
37 Depth 4
38 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
39 EndSubSection
40 SubSection "Display"
41 Viewport 0 0
42 Depth 8
43 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
44 EndSubSection
45
46 That's just a part of my xorg.conf. I don't use hal and don't like udev
47 doing mine so I still got my full xorg.conf file. If you need more,
48 just let me know. Heck, I'll post the whole thing if it will help you any.
49
50 Also, have you tried running "X -configure" yet? I used it on another
51 machine and it worked pretty well.
52
53 Dale
54
55 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg? Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>