xorg +nonfree drivers

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 03:02:04AM +0100, baza wrote:
> 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?

Hm, you should be there already.  If you don't already have it, put
"1280x1024" in your Modes lines, as the first mode (i.e. before
"1024x768").  If you do, bump 52 in HorizSync up to about 55.
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