On Friday 06 June 2008 01:41:21 Alex Deucher wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, I have a laptop with a 1400x1050 screen, and would like to be able > > to use it at half of the resolution, i.e. 700x525, because that would > > look better than e.g. 640x480 and 800x600, since it is eactly half of the > > physical resolution of the screen. It is an IBM T42 with an ATI Radeon > > Mobility 9600 card. I have added 700x525 to the Modes-line in the Display > > subsection of the Screen section in xorg.conf: > > > > *********************** > > Section "Screen" > > . > > SubSection "Display" > > . > > Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "700x525" > > "640x480" ************************** > > > > In /var/log/Xorg.0.log it says: > > > > ******************************************************* > > (II) RADEON(0): Added native panel mode: 1400x1050 > > (II) RADEON(0): Adding Screen mode: 1280x1024 > > (II) RADEON(0): Adding Screen mode: 1280x960 > > (II) RADEON(0): Adding Screen mode: 1024x768 > > (II) RADEON(0): Adding Screen mode: 800x600 > > (II) RADEON(0): Adding Screen mode: 700x525 > > (II) RADEON(0): Adding Screen mode: 640x480 > > (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid Screen mode(s) added: 6 > > ***************************************************************** > > > > The output from xrandr is: > > > > ************************************************************************* > >* Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 1400 x 1200 > > VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > > DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > > LVDS connected 1400x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > > 0mm x 0mm > > 1400x1050 60.2*+ > > 1280x1024 59.9 > > 1280x960 59.9 > > 1280x800 60.0 > > 1280x768 60.0 > > 1024x768 60.0 59.9 > > 800x600 60.3 59.9 > > 700x525 59.8 > > 640x480 59.9 59.4 > > S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > > ****************************************************************** > > > > However, "xrandr -s 700x525" results in: > > > > ************* > > Size 700x525 not found in available modes > > ************* > > > > How come xrandr is saying that it is not an "available mode", when it is > > on the list? Is it impossible to get a 700x525 resolution? > > xrandr -s is xrandr 1.0 API. It has no concept of multiple outputs. > Since the radeon driver is xrandr 1.2 compliant, it's a better idea to > use the 1.2 API: > xrandr --output LVDS --mode 700x525 > > Alex
Thanks, that worked! Now I just have to find out why that display mode is not on the list of display resolutions in kcontrol, but that is another matter. Best regards Torquil Sørensen _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
