>1024 please?!?!? X won't load!

jollyjoice · 07-24-2004, 09:35 AM

right, i have latest NVIDIA drivers, i have a GFX card that will do 1600+ (i think) why won't X let me go past 1024? this is a pain as i have 21" monitor and the icons are about 5 foot wide!
i DO have the nvidia drivers running, openGL etc. work. also why does my monitor have lines acrossit when i hoik up the refresh? it only lets me do 60 or 85...

its a good monitor (Sony triniton)

herbc · 07-24-2004, 10:55 AM

Do you have a 1024 modeline in XF86Config-4 (or whatever XOrg calls it); is it modeline referenced in Modes under the screen section?. See man XF86Config. Check the manual that came with your monitor to determine the correct (and maximum) refresh rates. 85 does seem slightly low. Check the values for VertRefresh in XF86Config.

jollyjoice · 07-24-2004, 01:46 PM

ok, will have a look. thanks

perry · 07-24-2004, 04:27 PM

until my ex-girlfriend, ex-boss decided to keep it from me in spite....

Code:

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present.  Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen.  A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "ati rage mobility"
    Monitor     "flat screen"

# If your card can handle it, a higher default color depth (like 24 or 32)
# is highly recommended.

#   DefaultDepth 8
#   DefaultDepth 16
   DefaultDepth 24
#   DefaultDepth 32

# "1024x768" is also a conservative usable default resolution.  If you
# have a better monitor, feel free to try resolutions such as
# "1152x864", "1280x1024", "1600x1200", and "1800x1400" (or whatever your
# card/monitor can produce)

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1920x1400", "1600x1200", "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" 
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1920x1400", "1600x1200", "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" 
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1920x1400", "1600x1200", "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" 
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection

EndSection

your monitor even on a cheap 32mb ati card can do at least 1920x1400, just copy what you need from above and give it a try, also, specify which video card you have

Code:

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
#  0  * Generic VESA compatible                         -
#  1  * Generic VGA compatible                          -
#  2  * Unsupported VGA compatible                      -
#  3  ** 3DLabs, TI (generic)               [glint]     -
#  4  ** 3Dfx (generic)                     [tdfx]      -
#  5  ** ATI (generic)                      [ati]       -
#  6  ** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]    -
#  7  ** ATI Rage 128 based (generic)       [r128]      -
#  8  ** Alliance Pro Motion (generic)      [apm]       -
#  9  ** Ark Logic (generic)                [ark]       -
# 10  ** Chips and Technologies (generic)   [chips]     -
# 11  ** Cirrus Logic (generic)             [cirrus]    -
# 12  ** Cyrix MediaGX (generic)            [cyrix]     -
# 13  ** DEC TGA (generic)                  [tga]       -
# 14  ** Intel i740 (generic)               [i740]      -
# 15  ** Intel i810 (generic)               [i810]      -
# 16  ** Linux framebuffer (generic)        [fbdev]     -
# 17  ** Matrox Graphics (generic)          [mga]       -

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ati rage mobility"
    Driver      "ati"
    VideoRam    8192
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

and jetblackz help with monitors (& setting up slackware 10)

jetblackz actually shows a nVidia configuration:

Code:

xvidtune
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Module"
    Load       "dbe"
    SubSection "extmod"
        Option "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
    Load       "type1"
    Load       "speedo"
    Load       "freetype"
    Load       "glx"
#    Load       "dri"
EndSection
...
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver     "mouse"
    Option     "Protocol"     "IMPS/2"
    Option     "Device"       "/dev/mouse"
    Option     "Resolution"   "256"
    Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
...
Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   30-70
    VertRefresh 50-160
    ModeLine    "1024x768" 94.50 1024 1088 1184 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync
    Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
...
Section "Device"
    Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce"
    Driver     "nv"
    VideoRam   65536
EndSection

make sure you know the sync rates for your monitor

- perry

dunric · 07-24-2004, 04:47 PM

First check Modes option in Display subsection of Screen section of required colour depth. It could look like following:
...
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1600x1280" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
...

You should start X if you fill correctly supported modes. Then you can tweak Modelines if automatic detection of refresh rates against HorizSync and VertRefresh options don't meet your needs and you wish higher, by example.

SBing · 07-24-2004, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by perry
until my ex-girlfriend, ex-boss decided to keep it from me in spite....

Awwww :( :( - /me hugs perry

And as everyone else has said, make sure your refresh rates are right, you don't wanna go damaging that screen of yours.

jollyjoice · 07-25-2004, 04:37 AM

thanks for all the stuff! i have found a data sheet for my monitor, it will go upto 170khz so no panic!
will have a good go at it!