Display configuration for widescreen

brunsodj · 09-11-2004, 11:03 AM

I am very new to linux and I am having difficulty configuring suse 9.1 for my sony Vaio vgns150. I am guessing that I need to adjust the display size in xapi, under the expert tab? How do I convert the resolution from 1280X800 to mm?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

thanks in advance.

jschiwal · 09-11-2004, 09:52 PM

I believe that your computer has a WXGA display with a resolution of 1280x800.

I googled for an answer and extracted this from a dell .pkg file. You may want to tweak your
/etc/X11/XF86config-4 file by inserting the ModelLine entries. First be sure that the HorizSync and VertRefresh look OK. I don't want you to fry your display!

Quote:

# Taken from http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resour...ll-i8500-linux
#

Section "Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 94
VertRefresh 50 - 90
# 1280x800 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 49.68 kHz; pclk: 83.46 MHz
ModeLine "1280x800" 83.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828
# 1280x800 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 62.62 kHz; pclk: 107.21 MHz
Modeline "1280x800" 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835
# 1280x800 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 71.40 kHz; pclk: 123.38 MHz
Modeline "1280x800" 123.38 1280 1368 1504 1728 800 801 804 840
# 1280x800 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 84.80 kHz; pclk: 147.89 MHz
Modeline "1280x800" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848
# 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz