Re: [LUG] Flat Screens

[Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Horne wrote:

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 21:39 +0000, james kilty wrote:
  

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 21:00 +0000, Simon Avery wrote:
    

james kilty wrote:

      

Mine keeps telling me a different resolution (1440x900) would be better
but it's not one of the options in system settings > monitor and
display.
        

R, that's a common mode for the widescreen flatties. How you get it is 
dependant entirely on your graphics card and the linux support for it.
      

Than kyou. It seems to be a Radeon X300 (which according to the ati page
on it has DTI) but I lost the scent on drivers. How can I check what
driver is being used (Kubuntu 7.04 64 AMD)?

    

Probably the 'lsmod' command will tell you. I'm using the 'radeon'
driver, and lsmod shows:

  radeon                114401  2
  drm                    68181  3 radeon

Details about the driver being used should be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(this is Fedora, so might be different for kubuntu.)


John.

  

If this helps any one I had a Proview monitor which came up with not supported Vsync and H settings after install!  Fedora C 7  So I booted from the Unbutu Cd Which set the display fine? and copied the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

Putting the Monitor settings and the Display settings in solved the prob!
see below

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
#############################this works! for Flat screen !!!!!!!!
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "ati"
        BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "565"
        Option          "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor "565"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     1
                Modes   "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes   "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection


##################################################################################

#######################As per Install this doesn't work####################################

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

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