xorg +nonfree drivers

baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Apr 7 02:02:04 UTC 2005


Daniel Stone wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:15:33PM +0100, baza wrote:
>  
>
>>I was reading in Linux User about the Xandros desktop, this comes with 
>>xorg plus 'commercial' drivers. What are these? And if I got them 
>>installed on Hoary would this make it, 'better', i.e. overcome the 
>>resolution problems I have?
>>    
>>
>
>These are just for nVidia and ATI cards, not Intel.  The only thing I
>can think of about your resolution problems is to put this in your
>/etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the Monitor section:
>HorizSync 36-52
>VertRefresh 36-75
>and that should get rid of most of the problem, if not actually properly
>solve it.
>  
>
That's almost got it, I now have 1024X768. Is there anyway to push it to 
1280X1024?

Thanx

Baza




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