NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430]

[Beats C]

Hi again:

I've got better results with:

beats at beatsPc:~$ cvt 1680 1050 60
# 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz
Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059
1089 -hsync +vsync
beats at beatsPc:~$ xrandr --newmode "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 1960
2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync
beats at beatsPc:~$ xrandr --addmode VGA-1 1680x1050_60.00
beats at beatsPc:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-1 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768      60.00
   800x600       60.32    56.25
   848x480       60.00
   640x480       59.94
   1280x960_60.00  59.94
   1680x1050_60.00  59.95*
beats at beatsPc:~$

Still dealing with doing it permanent after reboot.





On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Beats C <
roberto.clemente.bustamante at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I was able to set a higher resolution, following this steps:
>
> sudo cvt -v 1280 960 60
> sudo xrandr --newmode "1280x960_60.00"  101.25  1280 1360 1488 1696  960
> 963 967 996 -hsync +vsync
> sudo xrandr --addmode VGA-1 1280x960_60.00
> xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1280x960_60.00
>
> Same method was tried with 1680 1050 50 ... but there was no luck.
>
> This has been a good help:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution/#Dynamically_testing_different_resolutions
>
>
> Now, I need to identify how to make this change permanent, I've readed
> about .xconfig, but not so sure if it will work...
>
> Is this still valid https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/MonitorDetection ?
>
>
> Now i need to reboot again to see if it worked!
>
> Cheers ;-)
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Beats C <roberto.clemente.bustamante at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:36 PM
> Subject: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430]
> To: ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2),
> which  it's a headache itself... plus a Samsung syncMaster 2232BW . native
> resolution with proper drivers is 1680x1050.
> >
> > I'm currently using a daily build installation of 16.04 , but I can't
> change resolution to anything higher than 1024x768 , whilst in earlier LTS
> ubuntu I was able to work with native resolution 1680x1050 .
>
> >
> > Is there something I can do or is something completely expected on this
> early release? Yesterday i already added the hw to the wiki page , last
> entry, authored as beats.
>
> I'm open to provide as much details as needed (not too much spare time,
> but it's under my current priorities to fix this, so I will follow-up...)
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Best Regards,
>
>