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2010-07-16 08:13, Dale skrev: |
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> Erik wrote: |
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>> 2010-07-16 01:51, walt skrev: |
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>> |
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>>> On 07/15/2010 02:15 AM, Erik wrote: |
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>>>> ...This is the |
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>>>> new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old |
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>>>> INSPIRON|8600 |
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>>>> aquired 5 years earlier... |
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>>>> |
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>>> I feel as if I'm reading a post that I selected at random from the |
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>>> middle of a long thread with lots of previous questions and answers |
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>>> that I can't see. |
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>>> |
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>>> I've never heard of either of those products. Maybe someone else |
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>>> knows what |
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>>> they are? |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> Do not worry about not knowing about the products that I mentioned in |
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>> the parenthesis in the last paragraph (they are just some laptops with |
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>> differend graphic cards built in). You may know enough to help if you |
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>> are familiar with Xorg, in particular the driver called NV (as the first |
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>> 2 lines of my post shows). Do you for example know from where the driver |
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>> gets the bogus physical display size 508 x 317 from, and why it insists |
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>> on using it instead of the configured size? |
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>> |
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> |
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> Are you using hal? If so, you may need to get or change the config |
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> files so that it will run at the settings you want instead of what it |
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> "detects". |
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> By the way, I have no idea how to edit them. It's in xml. You may |
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> can google and borrow their config file tho. |
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> If you are not using hal, it should be set in xorg.conf. I don't use |
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> hal and that is where mine is set. |
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Yes I am using hal. Maybe that is the problem. But it is clear from the |
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log file that xorg.conf is read anyway. |
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