On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
kcontrol probably isn't randr 1.2 compliant yet as well. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
