Le dimanche 26 aoC;t 2007 C  22:10 +0200, Joachim Schipper a C)crit :
> 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

Can you send your xorg.conf?

Eric

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