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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.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 17:10:48
Message-Id: AANLkTinVk7HSfHKS4YBQSqH+G=vxtMQu6u1gGBCvgoJ9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg? by Mick
1 On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On 24 August 2010 11:23, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > >
5 > >> No. I ditched my xorg.conf completely; it had been there just because I
6 > >> couldn't get the Westinghouse monitor to work without it. The Xorg logs
7 > >> show it recognizes a boatload of
8 > >> modes that the monitor likes, but gives an alibi for not using the HD
9 > >> ones. The approach
10 > >> does not seem promising.
11 > >>
12 > >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log attached. I'm paying attention to lines 269 295 327
13 > >> 369 377 380 and 381
14 > >>
15 > >> 269: (II) MACH64(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 148.50 1920 2008 2052
16 > >> 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz)
17 > >> 295: (II) MACH64(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x60.0 172.80 1920 2040 2248
18 > >> 2576 1080 1081 1084 1118 -hsync +vsync (67.1 kHz)
19 > >> 327: (II) MACH64(0): Estimated virtual size for aspect ratio 1.7931 is
20 > >> 1920x1080
21 > >> 369: (II) MACH64(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (insufficient
22 > >> memory for mode)
23 > >> 377: (II) MACH64(0): Not using driver mode "1920x1080" (bad mode
24 > >> clock/interlace/doublescan)
25 > >> 380: (II) MACH64(0): Not using driver mode "1920x1080" (bad mode
26 > >> clock/interlace/doublescan)
27 > >> 381: (WW) MACH64(0): Shrinking virtual size estimate from 1920x1080 to
28 > >> 1280x1024
29 > >>
30 > >
31 > > I assume 269 and 295 are related to 377 and 380. I remember i had a lot
32 > of
33 > > pain getting a Geforce 440MX to do 16:9, but it was all in the modelines.
34 > > There are some modeline calculators on the web, but be warned that some
35 > of
36 > > them produce bad output. I did eventually get it to work after a lot of
37 > > trial and error.
38 > >
39 > > Also because of this;
40 > >
41 > > (II) MACH64(0): <default monitor>: Using hsync range of 30.00-85.00 kHz
42 > > (II) MACH64(0): <default monitor>: Using vrefresh range of 55.00-75.00 Hz
43 > > (II) MACH64(0): <default monitor>: Using maximum pixel clock of 160.00
44 > MHz
45 > >
46 > >
47 > > you may need to set the ranges in your xorg.conf instead. check the
48 > monitors
49 > > specs first tho.
50 >
51 > What does xrandr -q show?
52 > --
53 > Regards,
54 > Mick
55 >
56 >
57 treat log # xrandr -q
58 Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1440 x 1024
59 default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
60 1280x1024 60.0*
61 1440x900 60.0
62 1280x960 60.0
63 1152x864 75.0
64 1024x768 75.0 70.0 60.0
65 896x672 60.0
66 832x624 75.0
67 800x600 75.0 72.0 60.0 56.0 65.0
68 700x525 75.0 60.0
69 640x512 75.0 60.0
70 640x480 75.0 73.0 67.0 60.0
71 720x400 70.0
72 576x432 75.0
73 512x384 75.0 70.0 60.0
74 416x312 75.0
75 400x300 75.0 72.0 60.0 56.0
76 320x240 75.0 73.0 60.0
77 treat log #
78
79 --
80 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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