Video card resolution question

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:57 PM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:11 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:
>  >  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  [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.
>  >
>  >  Something is very wrong if you have to start specifying modelines for
>  >  a native mode.
>
>  The "very wrong" is that there are 3 modelines for the same mode
>  (1440x900).  So I use the name (the initial parameter of the modeline)
>  so that I can call it specifically in the screens section.  Otherwise
>  the system outsmarts itself trying to use the higher freq (better)
>  native modelines first.  I just forced the priority is all.

No, as I stated earlier, you're not using the nvidia X driver at all.
Perhaps if you were, you wouldn't need to play with modelines.


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