On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 06:39:13PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 03:38:47PM +0200, Eric Elena wrote:
> > Le samedi 25 aoC;t 2007 C  22:41 +0200, Joachim Schipper a C)crit :
> > > I just got a laptop (Acer Aspire 5100 `series') with a Radeon video card
> > > (X1300) and a WXGA screen - 1200x800. It was a good deal, but the ATI
> > > video card had me worried.
> > > 
> > > Am I correct in thinking that there is no way to get X to display
> > > 1200x800 (...)

> > > (--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)
> > 
> > Have you tried to add "Virtual 1200 800" in the subsection display
> > (section screen)?
> 
> No; I just tried to play with it, and:
> 
> - without Option "ShadowFB" "no" the screen is garbled (the bottommost
>   part is not initialized, i.e. displays whatever was displayed there
>   last, and the rest of the screen is repeated in four `bands' - and you
>   can scroll the screen as noted below)
> - with Option "ShadowFB" "no" the screen displays correctly, but sadly
>   at 1024x800 (or possibly 1024x768). Moving the mouse cursor to the
>   edge scrolls the screen, which, I suppose, is the proper behaviour. Of
>   course, the display is rather slow without ShadowFB, but that's not
>   really a problem.
> 
> Note that the shadow buffer works fine for any of the `supported' (if
> wrong) modes like 1024x800.
> 
> A new log file, with your virtual line and the shadow buffer disabled,
> is available at
> http://jschipper.dynalias.net/~joachim/posts/20070825/Xorg.0.log.
                                                     ^^
I'm an idiot.

Use
http://jschipper.dynalias.net/~joachim/posts/20070826/Xorg.0.log, or the
old URL (I just created that file).

Sorry for the noise...

                Joachim

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