Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer (about 3 months ago), X came up in 1280x1024 mode. Today I

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 September 2009 13:36:39 David Relson wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 07:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 September 2009 13:59:45 William Kenworthy wrote: I ran into the same problem though with different versions of the software a couple of days ago. The only fix that worked was to -hal xorg-server, and recreate the xorg.conf file that I had previously deleted, making sure that EDID

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer (about 3 months ago), X came up in 1280x1024

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to 1600x1200 in xorg.conf it was ignored and xrandr worked and was persistant.

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:13:36 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to 1600x1200 in

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:13 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to 1600x1200 in

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
randr output is below. Video resolution _is_ at the maximum it thinks is legitimate. In that case you may have to put a custom modeline into xorg.conf. Some of the modeline generators on the net are broken, so if you find one doesn't work try another.

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:03:17 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:13 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other

[gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-13 Thread David Relson
G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer (about 3 months ago), X came up in 1280x1024 mode. Today I restarted X (because the shift and control keys were