Also, FWIW, your card should support any of these resolutions just fine on either teh DVI or VGA ports.
Alex On Dec 31, 2007 2:40 AM, Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2007 9:17 PM, Kenny Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using an ABIT ATI Radeon 9200SE-DT graphics card on Gentoo Linux > > with xorg-server v1.3.0.0 and xf86-video-ati v6.6.3. I was previously > > using 1280x1024 on my old monitor, but I got a wide-screen monitor for > > Christmas, and its native resolution is 1440x900. I was able to get > > that on the kernel with the radeonfb driver, but I can't get it to go > > there in X. The best I can do is 1280x960, which isn't a true > > wide-screen resolution, at least not for my monitor, because I see > > photos of people and they look fatter than they should. I can't do > > 1280x800 either, which my monitor supports and would be a true > > wide-screen resolution. When I try to use 1440x900, I get this message > > in my X log: > > > > (II) RADEON(0): Not using mode "1440x900" (no mode of this name) > > > > Same token with 1280x800, but I really want 1440x900. I ordered a DVI > > cable online and am expecting it some time next week, but right now I'm > > using VGA, since it only came with a VGA cable. Does this only with > > with DVI? I don't see why that would be the case, because I got the > > frame buffer console on the kernel's radeonfb driver at 1440x900 with a > > VGA connection. Or is there a work-around that would enable me to get > > 1440x900? Or does the driver just not support it? My video card should > > support it, because it supports a resolution of > > 2048xSomething-or-other. (I don't remember the height, just the width.) > > > > Please let me know if there is a way to get that resolution, or if the > > driver doesn't support that, I want to ask that it be added to a future > > version. I've attached my xorg.conf file in case it helps. If you also > > need my Xorg.0.log file, let me know. I tried to send that attached > > before, but I got a response saying my message was too big and needed to > > be approved, so I cancelled it and tried again with just my xorg.conf file. > > 6.6.3 is pretty old. you'd probably have better luck with 6.7.19x. > Also, we really need to see your xorg log to figure out what's going > on. > > Alex > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
