Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

Hi, I have only two resolutions displayed by gnome-display-properties while my Monitor connected to other systems definetly have more than 2 resolutions available. From the Xserver Log I got the following: (II) VESA(0): Total Memory: 1024 64KB banks (65536kB) (II) VESA(0): Configured

Re: Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

Hi Lev, Unless this is a last resort, I really recommend *NOT* to use the VESA driver. Vesa used the least of your grpahics chip capabilities, NO graphics acceleration, no nothing, Any native driver for your graphics chip would do a better job of allocating memory (and not giving you only 64MB

Re: Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

Thanks, After hard googling I managed to set up  working setup in xorg.conf What I miss  - i did not find good explanation for  various Option and their affects, ( I do not deal with graphics usually), perhaps you can give me some reference It looks this way : Section "Monitor"    

Re: Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

Lev, You didn't tell me which chipset do you use (I understand it's VIA, but which VIA?), nor distribution that you use... You can download a driver + docs if you know what chipset in your board (lspci -v) at this site: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action You can use the forum

SOLVED : Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

Hi  Hetz, The chipset is cle266,  Linux Ubuntu 8.04, I configured Xserver to use openchrome driver ( Ubuntu has it inside )  I suppose these VESA messages were printed before I rerun Xserver and I did not realize it Now the messages are come from OpenChrome  but what does VESA Bios means I

Re: SOLVED : Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

VESA (Video Electronics Standard Association) is an entity made from several companies which creates different standards (see here: http://www.vesa.org/) The thing you saw is related to VESA VBE (VESA BIOS Extensions - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions) which is a standard that

Re: SOLVED : Xserver resolution problem - NEW : gdm refuses to show up

Hi Hetz, New problem I noticed after reboot - now gdm do not show anything, it just turns display on/off Here the Log more /var/log/gdm/:0.log This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation. It is not

List working ?

I have sent a message to the list twice today, and as far as I can tell it has not gotten through. Has anyone seen a meassage from me on the list today ? -- The day is short, and the work is great,| Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the

Re: List working ?

On Tuesday 05 May 2009 22:28:46 Aharon Schkolnik wrote: I have sent a message to the list twice today, and as far as I can tell it has not gotten through. Has anyone seen a meassage from me on the list today ? You can simply check in here: http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/

Re: List working ?

On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Oren Held wrote: On Tuesday 05 May 2009 22:28:46 Aharon Schkolnik wrote: I have sent a message to the list twice today, and as far as I can tell it has not gotten through. Has anyone seen a meassage from me on the list today ? You can simply check in here:

Re: List working ?

On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Oren Held wrote: On Tuesday 05 May 2009 22:28:46 Aharon Schkolnik wrote: I have sent a message to the list twice today, and as far as I can tell it has not gotten through. Has anyone seen a meassage from me on

[Test] Kmail, Firefox, etc scrambling text -without attachment

Hi ! I have attached a screen shot showing a portion of an email which I received. Note the line which is supposed to say flying over Israel on Monday night, but is scrambled. Below is the email source. The text in the source looks fine ! I see the same sort of thing with Firefox. I am

Re: [Test] Kmail, Firefox, etc scrambling text -without attachment

So, my message gets through when I remove the attachment. Does the list reject messages with attachments ? Does it reject messages which are over a certain size ? Are there sunspots which are affecting my messages ? Who knows all the dirty secrets about the list ? TIA ! On Tuesday 05 May

Kmail, Firefox, etc scrambling text

Hi ! Below is an excerpt from an email I received. The first line is supposed to say: If you are flying over Israel on Monday night, but is scrambled. Here's what I see: If you are flyingoveIsraeoMondanigh (1 th) and you look down out of your plan, you will see thousands of bonfires

dpkg problems

Hi, I have a few packages that are not really installed, or were configured manually that dpkg wants to configure, which messes things up. When ever I run an update, dpkg runs the configure scripts and things need to be fixed to get them to work again. Is there any way to tell dpkg to

Re: SOLVED : Xserver resolution problem - NEW : gdm refuses to show up

I think it's related to a kernel module which is not being loaded. Please contact the forum in the link I gave you for further assistance. Thanks, Hetz On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Lev Olshvang l...@vboxcomm.com wrote: Hi Hetz, New problem I noticed after reboot  - now gdm do not show