1280 x 800 video

[Ed Cogburn]

Achim Bohnet wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 02:28, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 
>> > After much hassle, and the suggestion from someone here to use gtf, I
>> > got my Dell Inspiron to display 1280 x 800 (the native resolution when
>> > I started it up in Windows).
> 
> What is gtf?


It WAS a little command line program that came with 6.8.2-10 Xorg that could
build the modelines for you, but having updated to the latest in breezy,
its now gone.  :(  There's still the 'videogen' proggie that does the same
the thing, just a little more awkward to setup and use.


> (II) RADEON(0): Panel infos found from DDC detailed: 1024x768
> (II) RADEON(0): Panel infos found from DDC VESA/EDID: 1280x1024
> (II) RADEON(0): Valid Mode from Detailed timing table: 1024x768
> (II) RADEON(0): Valid Mode from Detailed timing table: 1600x1200
> (II) RADEON(0): Valid Mode from standard timing table: 1280x1024
> ...
> (WW) RADEON(0): Mode 1600x1200 is out of range.
> (WW) RADEON(0): Valid modes must be between 320x200-1280x1024
> (WW) RADEON(0): Mode 1600x1200ach is out of range.
> (WW) RADEON(0): Valid modes must be between 320x200-1280x1024


In your case, its the video card itself saying that mode is invalid, based
on what its getting from the monitor via DDC.  The (II) shows this mode
information is coming from the hardware, not the config file.  Info taken
from the config file would be prefixed with (**).  Sorry, not sure how to
help you with this.  Does the RADEON X driver have any docs?  Many of the
separate video drivers have their own manpages.  There may be some kind of
config option you can pass to it in the Device section of xorg.conf to fix
this.