Re: Display setting problem with 4k monitor

2017-01-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 01/25/2017 10:01 AM, Massimo Canonico wrote: > If someone has a similar problem, I suggest to read this page: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI > > It helps me a lot, but I'm still having problem with the monitors. > Zooming/panning make the display blurry and (as suggested in

Re: Display setting problem with 4k monitor

2017-01-25 Thread Massimo Canonico
If someone has a similar problem, I suggest to read this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI It helps me a lot, but I'm still having problem with the monitors. Zooming/panning make the display blurry and (as suggested in the web page) I should try to adjust the "sharpness"

Display setting problem with 4k monitor

2017-01-17 Thread Massimo Canonico
Hi all, I've bought a new laptop (Dell xps 13.3) and the monitor resolution is 3200x1800. Now the problem is that I cannot use this laptop with my external monitor which I use as an extended monitor. The external monitor could reach 1280x1024. So when I try to move a window from the laptop

Re: Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Richard Sewill rsew...@gmail.com wrote: I hesitate trying to answer this question because what I am doing may be wrong. I tried the following on F18. I edited the line, found in file /etc/default/grub, which starts GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 ... rhgb quiet

Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-26 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 25/11/13 12:50, Richard Sewill wrote: I hesitate trying to answer this question because what I am doing may be wrong. I tried the following on F18. I edited the line, found in file /etc/default/grub, which starts GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 ... rhgb quiet appending strings so it had

Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-26 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 25/11/13 18:28, poma wrote: --output selects a particular output mode, so it should work. Move a 'monitors.xml' so it doesn't interfere with setup, $ mv $HOME/.config/monitors.xml $HOME/.config/monitors.xml-backup and disable that session script of yours. Check what's happening via

Re: Display setting problem

2013-11-26 Thread poma
On 26.11.2013 18:06, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 25/11/13 18:28, poma wrote: --output selects a particular output mode, so it should work. Move a 'monitors.xml' so it doesn't interfere with setup, $ mv $HOME/.config/monitors.xml $HOME/.config/monitors.xml-backup and disable

Re: Display setting problem

2013-11-26 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 26/11/13 16:38, poma wrote: Feel free to paste the content of the 'lightdm.log' athttp://fpaste.org so it can be studied. If you do, one for the RandR round, and one for the script of yours. poma Ok, it looks like it sent it to http://ur1.ca/g3pzw -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD Box 10

Re: Display setting problem

2013-11-26 Thread poma
On 26.11.2013 23:58, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Ok, it looks like it sent it to http://ur1.ca/g3pzw Thy 'lightdm.log': [+1.00s] DEBUG: Got signal from X server :0 [+1.00s] DEBUG: Connecting to XServer :0 [+1.00s] DEBUG: Starting greeter [+1.01s] DEBUG: Started session 974 with

Re: Display setting problem CORRECTION-

2013-11-25 Thread poma
On 24.11.2013 17:00, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: CORRECTION: Fedora-19 I have a ViewSonic VX2035wm LCD Display monitor on this computer that is not recognized by Fedora-19. in order to get a reasonable display I have to run /usr/bin/xrandr -s 1680x1050 after I am logged in and

Re: Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-25 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 11/25/2013 04:39 AM, poma wrote: On 24.11.2013 17:00, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Anyone know a better way to deal with this? As it stands it is just one of the things I do every morning after booting the computer ... This question is already answered in detail. poma Ok,

Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-25 Thread poma
On 25.11.2013 17:27, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Ok, then I assume that to mean there is no better way. Please this time try to read carefully from top to bottom. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/425665 This message is an interesting experiment in that

Re: Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-25 Thread Richard Sewill
I hesitate trying to answer this question because what I am doing may be wrong. I tried the following on F18. I edited the line, found in file /etc/default/grub, which starts GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 ... rhgb quiet appending strings so it had GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 ... rhgb quiet

Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-25 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 25/11/13 12:29, poma wrote: On 25.11.2013 17:27, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Ok, then I assume that to mean there is no better way. Please this time try to read carefully from top to bottom. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/425665 Ok, so I have

Re: Display setting problem -

2013-11-25 Thread poma
On 25.11.2013 22:23, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Then when I select the Display GUI it offers me 1680x1050 sure enough but does not actually select it. I still have to run my script to get other than 1024x768. It doesn't seem to pay attention to lightdm.conf? --output

Display setting problem -

2013-11-24 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I have a ViewSonic VX2035wm LCD Display monitor on this computer that is not recognized by Fedora-18. in order to get a reasonable display I have to run /usr/bin/xrandr -s 1680x1050 after I am logged in and the display [XFCE] is running. That works for me but it seems a bit clunky and after

Display setting problem CORRECTION-

2013-11-24 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
CORRECTION: Fedora-19 I have a ViewSonic VX2035wm LCD Display monitor on this computer that is not recognized by Fedora-19. in order to get a reasonable display I have to run /usr/bin/xrandr -s 1680x1050 after I am logged in and the display [XFCE] is running. That works for me but it seems a

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-06 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/03/13 05:57, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 03/03/2013 04:57 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Ok, this is the relevant portion of the file: [31.968] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output VGA-0 [31.968] (II) RADEON(0): Printing probed modes for output VGA-0 [31.968] (II)

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-03 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:24:57 -0500 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: On 03/02/2013 01:40 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 03/02/2013 04:24 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: If it was a clean install, you should send us the content of

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-03 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/03/2013 04:57 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Ok, this is the relevant portion of the file: [31.968] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output VGA-0 [31.968] (II) RADEON(0): Printing probed modes for output VGA-0 [31.968] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline 1024x768x60.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:49:56 -0500 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver ati I wonder if the ati driver is appropriate. The processor is an AMD A8 3850 and the GPU is apparently

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:41:41 -0500 David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: You could use system-config-display to do this. But Fedora dropped it several releases ago. Did you ever get well informed about *why* it was dropped? There was a reason for that. And now is when you will get message after

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 02 March 2013, Marko Vojinovic sent: or with a faulty VGA cable Or, just so nobody is left in the lurch, an apparently not faulty brand new cable, that simply hasn't got any wiring between the two pins that carry the EDID signals. Some cheap cables only bother wire up

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:18:21 +1030 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Allegedly, on or about 02 March 2013, Marko Vojinovic sent: or with a faulty VGA cable Or, just so nobody is left in the lurch, an apparently not faulty brand new cable, that simply hasn't got any wiring between

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/02/2013 12:36 AM, poma wrote: ls -l /sys/class/drm/ poma [bobg@box10 ~]$ ls -l /sys/class/drm/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root0 Mar 2 2013 card0 - ../../devices/pci:00/:00:01.0/drm/card0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root0 Mar 2 2013 card0-HDMI-A-1 -

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread poma
On 03/02/13 13:32, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 03/02/2013 12:36 AM, poma wrote: ls -l /sys/class/drm/ poma [bobg@box10 ~]$ ls -l /sys/class/drm/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root0 Mar 2 2013 card0 - ../../devices/pci:00/:00:01.0/drm/card0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/02/2013 04:24 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Well, first of all, you probably want to put radeon driver up there instead of ati. Did that ... Second, the data about your PCI hardware, including the graphics card, is displayed by lspci -v, which should confirm that you have an ATI Radeon

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/02/2013 04:24 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: If it was a clean install, you should send us the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log file (it may be large, maybe put it in a pastebin or something). This file can tell all the details about what is going wrong with automatic resolution detection and

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/02/2013 01:40 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 03/02/2013 04:24 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: If it was a clean install, you should send us the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log file (it may be large, maybe put it in a pastebin or something). This file can tell all the details

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 03/01/2013 12:48 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: In a new Fedora-18/64 bit install in a new computer I am unable to set the resolution above 1024x768 at 60HZ and would like to set it higher. Just for grins, have you tried without any conf file at all? I don't have one, and X

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-02 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/02/2013 03:49 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: On 03/01/2013 12:48 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: In a new Fedora-18/64 bit install in a new computer I am unable to set the resolution above 1024x768 at 60HZ and would like to set it higher. Just for grins, have you tried without

F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
In a new Fedora-18/64 bit install in a new computer I am unable to set the resolution above 1024x768 at 60HZ and would like to set it higher. I found the following:. [root@box10 ~]# ll /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d total 4 -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 161 Feb 28 04:42 00-anaconda-keyboard.conf To which I

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread g
On 03/01/2013 06:48 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: In a new Fedora-18/64 bit install in a new computer I am unable to set the resolution above 1024x768 at 60HZ and would like to set it higher. I found the following:. [root@box10 ~]# ll /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d total 4

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/01/2013 02:42 PM, g wrote: give this a try: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver ati EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/02/13 05:49, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: ell that's an improvement in that it works however I still don't have an option of selecting higher than 1024x768. Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver ati I wonder if the ati driver is

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread g
On 03/01/2013 09:49 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 03/01/2013 02:42 PM, g wrote: give this a try: cutting that out. sending full layout. Well that's an improvement in that it works however I still don't have an option of selecting higher than 1024x768. Section Device

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread David
On 3/1/2013 1:48 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: In a new Fedora-18/64 bit install in a new computer I am unable to set the resolution above 1024x768 at 60HZ and would like to set it higher. I found the following:. [root@box10 ~]# ll /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d total 4

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/01/2013 06:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Time for the usual questions. What is the output of xrandr? And, is your monitor attached to your system via a KVM switch? -- [bobg@box10 ~]$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 VGA-0 connected

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/01/2013 06:40 PM, g wrote: i was not familiar with the amd a8-3850 cpu/gpu. a quick search via ixquick.com [i am thru with gobble and their tracking] to find out a little more about the cpu/gpu chip. nothing to say how it appears. amd now owns ati, so your driver ?should? be correct. or

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 03/01/2013 06:41 PM, David wrote: You could use system-config-display to do this. But Fedora dropped it several releases ago. And now is when you will get message after message chock full of helpful 'try this' suggestions that won't work and many 'what does some cryptic CLI command say?

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread David
On 3/1/2013 7:11 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 03/01/2013 06:41 PM, David wrote: You could use system-config-display to do this. But Fedora dropped it several releases ago. And now is when you will get message after message chock full of helpful 'try this' suggestions

Re: F-18 display setting problem -

2013-03-01 Thread poma
On 03/02/13 00:55, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 03/01/2013 06:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Time for the usual questions. What is the output of xrandr? And, is your monitor attached to your system via a KVM switch? -- [bobg@box10 ~]$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200,