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XF86Config & Screen Resolution help...

xI got a new to me monitor, its a 21 inch crt. I have been trying to get 1280x1024 resoltuion and I cannot get it to work. best I can get is 1024*764,

Video = GeFroce 2
Monitor = HP A4331D

Here is my XF86Config file...

Code:

Section "Module"

    Load        "dbe"          # Double buffer extension

    SubSection  "extmod"

    EndSubSection

    Load        "type1"

    Load        "speedo"

#    Load        "freetype"

#    Load        "xtt"

    Load      "glx"

#    Load      "dri"



EndSection

Section "Files"

    RgbPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"

    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"

    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"

    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"

    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

#    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"

#    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"

    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

    FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

EndSection



Section "ServerFlags"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier        "Keyboard1"

    Driver        "Keyboard"

    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"

    Option "XkbRules"        "xfree86"

    Option "XkbModel"        "pc102"

    Option "XkbLayout"        "us"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier        "Mouse1"

    Driver        "mouse"

    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"

    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

  Identifier "HP A4331D"

        VendorName "HP"

        ModelName  "A4331D"

        HorizSync 30 - 121

        VertRefresh 48 - 80

EndSection



Section "Device"

    Identifier        "Standard VGA"

    VendorName        "Unknown"

    BoardName        "Unknown"

    Driver    "vga"



EndSection



Section "Device"

    Identifier  "GeForce2"

    Driver      "nvidia"

    Option        "NvAGP" "2"

    VideoRam    32768

    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate

EndSection



Section "Screen"

    Identifier  "Screen 1"

    Device      "GeForce2"

    Monitor    "TekBright"

    DefaultDepth 16



    Subsection "Display"

        Depth      8

        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort    0 0

    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth      16

        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort    0 0

    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"

        Depth      24

        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

        ViewPort    0 0

    EndSubsection

EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier  "Simple Layout"

    Screen "Screen 1"

    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

any ideas?? :confused:

EDIT: Also xf86config does not work for me any more.. its been about 4-5 months since I have used it but it has worked?? I get command not found when trying to run it.

Re: XF86Config & Screen Resolution help...

Quote:

Originally posted by trey85stang

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HP A4331D"
VendorName "HP"
ModelName "A4331D"
HorizSync 30 - 121
VertRefresh 48 - 80
EndSection

The above looks completely wrong for your monitor.

According to HP your monitor is:

H Freq/ V Freq: 30-82khz / 48-150 hz

Re: Re: XF86Config & Screen Resolution help...

Quote:

Originally posted by huntz
The above looks completely wrong for your monitor.

According to HP your monitor is:

H Freq/ V Freq: 30-82khz / 48-150 hz

I changed the settings but the I get the same results... :(

Does anyone know how I can get xf86config back?? I searched the machine for it and it is not there???

Re: Re: Re: XF86Config & Screen Resolution help...

Quote:

Originally posted by trey85stang
Does anyone know how I can get xf86config back?? I searched the machine for it and it is not there??? [/B]

Hi trey85stang :)

That problem happen to me from time to time, a way to go around the problem will be to jump to an other directory i.e.:

Quote:

# cd /
# xf86config

or

# cd /src
# xf86config

Try to jump around to different places I'm sure it will start a last thing will the removal of your existing XF86-installation and re-installation by means of pkgtool.

/tungsten ;)

Re: Re: Re: Re: XF86Config & Screen Resolution help...

Quote:

Originally posted by tungsten
Hi trey85stang :)

That problem happen to me from time to time, a way to go around the problem will be to jump to an other directory i.e.:

Try to jump around to different places I'm sure it will start a last thing will the removal of your existing XF86-installation and re-installation by means of pkgtool.

/tungsten ;)

Thanks for the suggestion... but it does not seem to be working for me... I have one more thing that I have found out. I would like to add to this post before reintalling X...

My edited XF86Config file is not being used. I switched my nvidia driver to nv in the config.. and the nvidia module still continues to load (I get the nvidia splash screen). So I checked the XFree86.0.log file.. and it is loading all the settings from my old config???

I went as far as rm'ing all the XF86Config files from /etc/X11 and yet startx continues to load with no problem???

anyone have any ideas what is going on??

Sounds tricky,

I'm not so happy with Nvidia either as they make a lot of trouble. BTW let us know your soulution on this problem

/tungsten ;)

ok.. problem resolved... it turns out I installed xorg at some point.. It was not useing XF86Cong.. I was using xorg.conf made all the changes to xorg.conf and it worked perfectly :)