Video card resolution question

David A. Bandel david.bandel at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 04:33:01 PDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:11 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>

Replying to my own post ;-)

>  [snip]
>
>  >
>  >  startx -- -logverbose 5
>
>  (--) NV(0): Virtual size is 1440x900 (pitch 1440)
>  (**) NV(0): *Driver mode "1440x900": 106.5 MHz, 55.9 kHz, 59.9 Hz
>  (II) NV(0): Modeline "1440x900"  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903
>  909 934 +hsync -vsync
>  (**) NV(0): *Driver mode "1440x900": 136.8 MHz, 70.6 kHz, 75.0 Hz
>  (II) NV(0): Modeline "1440x900"  136.75  1440 1536 1688 1936  900 903
>  909 942 -hsync +vsync
>  (**) NV(0): *Default mode "1440x900": 108.8 MHz, 56.9 kHz, 60.2 Hz
>  (II) NV(0): Modeline "1440x900"  108.84  1440 1472 1880 1912  900 918
>  927 946 +hsync +vsync
>
>
>  OK, looks like I need to use the last modeline above.  There were a
>  _lot_ more generated, but these were the only 3 referencing 1440x900.
>
>  Will give this a shot if I can remember where modelines go in the
>  xorg.conf file.

Adding the above modeline, then inserting a Modes line in the Display
subsection of the Screen section got it.

Thanx,

David A. Bandel
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