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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 03 May 2007, Mick wrote: |
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> Colleen's machine is a laptop. They don't have horiz and vert sync |
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> signals... Those settings apply only to CRT displays. |
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> 99 times out of 100, LCD screens do just fine with a minimal xorg.conf. |
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> Here's mine: |
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> Section "Monitor" |
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> # HorizSync 64.8 - 64.8 |
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> # VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0 |
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> Identifier "Monitor0" |
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> VendorName "Monitor Vendor" |
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> ModelName "Monitor Model" |
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> Option "DPMS" "true" |
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> # DisplaySize 331 207 |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "Device" |
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> ### Available Driver options are:- |
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> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", |
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> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" |
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> ### [arg]: arg optional |
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> #Option "HWCursor" "false" |
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> # Check if these three really work on this hardware... |
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> #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] |
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> #Option "VGAClocks" # [<bool>] |
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> #Option "KGAUniversal" # [<bool>] |
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> Identifier "Card0" |
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> Driver "radeon" |
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> Option "AGPMode" "4" |
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> #Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" |
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> Option "EnablePageFlip" "True" |
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> Option "AccelMethod" "xaa" |
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> BusID "PCI:1:0:0" |
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> EndSection |
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> Section "Screen" |
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> Identifier "Screen0" |
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> Device "Card0" |
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> Monitor "Monitor0" |
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> DefaultDepth 24 |
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> SubSection "Display" |
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> Viewport 0 0 |
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> Depth 24 |
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> Modes "1680x1050" |
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> EndSubSection |
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> EndSection |
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> Notice how the only things that are uncommented are unky radeon driver |
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> settings. I can even take the "Modes" line out and it all still works |
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> just fine. That's because virtually all modern monitors/cards speak DDC |
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> and Xorg can ask the hardware when it starts what the hardware |
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> supports. |
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> The only thing Colleen *has* to customize here is the correct "Driver" |
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> for her nvdia card |
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> alan |
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I may be wrong but I think this is not quite correct. I had to look for |
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the specs (hsync, vsync) of my LCD because X was trying to run it on |
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higher refresh rates resulting in out of range errors. On the other hand |
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Colleen said the screen was "garbled" - doesn't seem to be an out of |
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range problem. Probably it would be best if Colleen attached or linked |
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to Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf and maybe kernel output [if that kernel |
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recompilation didn't fix the problems of course]. |
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