On Monday 04 January 2010 14:06:37 Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote:
Am 01.01.2010 um 01:13 schrieb Craig Van Degrift:
I have been troubled by how confusing it can be for new users of
Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu to get their old display hardware showing
higher
resolution. I have attempted to write a WWW page that is designed
to help
these newbies as well as confused old-timers like myself. Could
anyone
interested in helping with this look at
http://yosemitefoothills.com/UbuntuLucidDisplayNotes.html
and give me feedback.
I have the same problem and solve it by putting something like this
into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45custom_xrandr-settings ($HOME/.Xsession no
longer works):
xrandr --newmode 1280x1024 SGI 134.400 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024
1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 1280x1024 SGI
You can get the required numbers with PowerStrip, a tool for MS
Windows.
Thanks for the examples of xrandr's use, although in this case the solution
needed should not require a new user to immediately mess with the system at
that level.
I am hoping for a solution that is completely independent of MS Windows.
Is ddcprobe's EDID probing likely to improve in the near future? My VIA
motherboard seems to support i2c and ViewSonic has e-mailed me their EDID
output for my ViewSonic model VE710b monitor, but all I get is edidfail from
ddcprobe. I assume this happens to a lot of folks that are trying Ubuntu on
moderately old/or inexpensive systems.
You can also get them from the “cvt command.
Thanks. I have now also played with cvt.
I have toyed with the idea of adding this to a “Do you not see the
resolution you're after button in gnome-display-properties. It would
actually be quite easy to implement, although I think it'd require
extending the xrandr plugin for gnome-settings-daemon a bit.
That would be a wonderful solution which I imagine can be easily ported to
Kubuntu as well. I will need to study the code for gnome-display-properties,
xrandr, and gnome-settings-daemon to better understand what is involved. I'd
be happy to test what you come can up with.
For added bonus points, it would talk to gdm's gnome-settings-daemon, too.
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