On Monday, August 15, 2011 05:15:23 PM Przemek Klosowski did opine: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:50 AM, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > One of the problems that was confusing me recently is that I had > > replaced the old samsung crt monitor with a much newer cheap AOC lcd > > that runs at 1360x724 at best, but under the vesa driver on an ati > > x1650 video card, it apparently is running in 1024x768. This results > > in a pixel that is far from square unless I use a button on the > > monitor which shrinks the display > > ... > > > (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1360x768" (no mode of this name) > > <---native > > If it really is 1360x768 (your log excerpt doesn't show it but seems > to be reported by the monitor, and it's pretty close to 16/9 wide > aspect ratio), you could add a custom mode in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file. Something like: > > Section "Monitor" > Modeline "1360x768" 85.5 1360 1424 1536 1792 768 771 777 795 > EndSection > Many thanks, I just added that to the top of an extensive list in that machines xorg.conf, and I will go reboot it now for effects.
I tried variations of 1360x768 and 1366x768. The log contains a long list of available modes, which do not include either of those, and are uniformly within a pixel of a 4x3 aspect ratio. Does that list of modes come from the card? Or from the vesa driver? The log says 136nx768 is not used because there is no mode of that name even though I have added it to the "Monitor" section. If its the card, I wonder if it is flashable to add that mode? Or should I shelve the card, an ATI X1650 and replace it with something else that knows about 16x9 aspect ratios? Thanks Przemek. Cheers, gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation." -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
