On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:37:20AM -0700, Allen Brown wrote:
> > > I'd be interested in seeing that info for the Dell.
> >
> > (II) RADEON(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
> > (II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > (II) RADEON(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
> > (II) RADEON(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
> > (II) RADEON(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897
> > (II) RADEON(0): #1: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 60 vid: 16553
> > (II) RADEON(0): #2: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 75 vid: 20337
> > (II) RADEON(0): #3: hsize: 1680 vsize 1680 refresh: 60 vid: 179
> > (II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
> > (II) RADEON(0): clock: 154.0 MHz Image Size: 519 x 324 mm
> > (II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1920 h_sync: 1968 h_sync_end 2000 h_blank_end
> > 2080 h_border: 0
> > (II) RADEON(0): v_active: 1200 v_sync: 1203 v_sync_end 1209 v_blanking:
> > 1235 v_border: 0
> > (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: T61335220FTS
> > (II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: DELL 2405FPW
> > (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 76 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 81 kHz,
> > PixClock max 170 MHz
> > (II) RADEON(0): End of Monitor1 EDID data --------------------
> >
> > Doesn't look like there is another mode with the right aspect ratio.
> > Particularly odd is 1680x1680. What were they thinking?
>
> It's not that they don't have another mode of that aspect ration, but that
> X didn't ask about any other modes of that aspect ratio. Used to be that
> you would specify your modelines yourself. Now X comes with a large set
> of canned modelines. If you want something unusual, you still need a
> modeline for it.
>
> 960x600 is a good choice if you can find or make the right modeline.
> 480x300 is also a possibility, but what would you do with it?
I finally got the chance to tweak these values. My entries now
look like:
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" "1280x800" "960x600" "640x400" "480x300"
EndSubSection
I agree that 480x300 is a bit extreme, and I may delete it at
some point. But what is interesting is that I didn't have to
do anything special, just modify the Modes line as shown and
they all worked. About 10 years ago I remember having to make
lots of tweaks to mode lines that are no longer even listed
in the XF86Config file anymore. (Now called XF86Config-4.)
Quite nice I must say.
--
Allen Brown
work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
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--- Albert Einstein
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