Modes Listed in xorg.conf not being used
Hey all,
I just installed the ATI drivers and got everything up and running - but I discovered that after installing the drivers my resolution changed from 1280x800 to 1280x768. This is just enough of a change to make everything a little fuzzy. "No biggie," I thought, and went in to xorg.conf to replace the modes with my preferred resolution. However, this is what I found: Code:
Section "Monitor" Code:
(II) fglrx(0): Total of 13 modes found for primary display. Any thoughts? How do I make this thing display at the correct resolution if it won't read it correctly from the conf file? What makes this even stranger was that it was correct before I installed the ATI drivers... *sigh*. Breezy 5.10 2.6.12-10-386 ATI Radeon X300 64MB Intel Centrino 1.6GHZ 1GB RAM |
I'm having this too after I installed my ATI drivers, it wants to run at 1280x1024 all the time, and when I specify 1024x768, the main screen is 1280x1024 but the monitor shows at 1024x768, which means the actual desktop is bigger than my monitor and I have to use the mouse to scroll up and down and the sides. For now, I just use 1280x1024 all the way until I get my other problem sorted out: No real OpenGL
BTW, how did you manage to get your Radeon drivers installed properly? |
Installing the drivers was easy for me - I just did a
Code:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-<your-kernel-version> xorg-driver-fglrx Note that in order to do this you have to have uncommented all those repositories in your sources.list file. Anyone have any ideas on the original problem? |
All right - problem has been solved.
I found the solution in another thread - it's the horizontal refresh rate. In my xorg.conf posted above, it's stuck at 60 Hz... what you need is something like: Code:
HorizSync 30-64 #multisync |
Cool, glad you got it sorted. At least I know what to do if I come across something similar, I'm using a LCD monitor and FC4 likes to set it at 1280x1024 @ 75Hz all the time. Not quite sure about my monitor's max, it probably is 75 if it can do that.
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