Widescreen resolution ignored in xwindows/gdm

2009-04-14 Thread Larry Irwin 
I have an Acer X233H widescreen monitor and cannot get any of the 16:9 
aspect resolutions up in gdm.
I am using the latest 32-bit Etch binaries on a Pentium D system w/1GB RAM 
and an Intel 945 G/GZ on-board video controller.
It comes up with 1600x1200 24 bit depth even though I have removed that from 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.
I only left 16:9 modes that were evenly divisible by 8 (like 1920x1080) in 
xorg.conf.
I've played a bit with videogen to try to get a modeline entry, but it does 
not allow you to set lower limits and it goes below the limits a lot...

Any ideas out there?
Thanks,
Larry Irwin 



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Re: Widescreen resolution ignored in xwindows/gdm

2009-04-14 Thread Cousin Stanley 

 I have an Acer X233H widescreen monitor and cannot get 
 any of the 16:9 aspect resolutions up in gdm.

 I am using the latest 32-bit Etch binaries on a Pentium D 
 system w/1GB RAM and an Intel 945 G/GZ on-board video controller.
  

  I have a Samsung widescreen lcd monitor with native 1680x1050q 
  resolution, also use an Intel 945 on-board video controller,
  and never managed to get the monitor properly configured 
  under Debian Etch after a  LOT  of monkeying with the XFree86
  config file 

  After upgrading to Debian Lenny using the newer minimalistic
  xorg.conf file the monitor was automatically configured 
  and works fine with its native resolution  

  Simalar story with Zenwalk 5, where I also couldn't manage
  to get the display properly configured with the widescreen 
  Samsung monitor, but it was magically configured with an 
  upgrade to Zenwalk 6  

  If a dist-upgrade is possible for you, it  might  save 
  a bit of hair-pulling trying to configure your monitor 


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