VGA out: it worked, not it does not

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> Subject: VGA out: it worked, not it does not
> To: "ubuntu-users." <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 3:05 AM
> On a Dell Inspiron 6400 with an ATI x1400 video card (I am
> using the
> proprietary drivers) and Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5.10) the VGA
> output was
> working fine until a reboot today. I did update the system
> via apt-get
> yesterday, so that may have affected something. This is my
> xorg.conf
> file (minus comments at the top):
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>       Driver          "kbd"
>       Option          "XkbRules"     
> "xorg"
>       Option          "XkbModel"     
> "pc105"
>       Option          "XkbLayout"    
> "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>       Driver          "mouse"
>       Option          "CorePointer"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>       Driver          "synaptics"
>       Option          "SendCoreEvents"       
> "true"
>       Option          "Device"       
> "/dev/psaux"
>       Option          "Protocol"     
> "auto-dev"
>       Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"      
> "0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>       Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
>       Driver          "fglrx"
>       Option          "MonitorLayout"
> "CRT,LFP"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>       Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
>       Option          "MonitorLayout"
> "CRT,LFP"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>       Identifier      "Default Screen"
>       Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
>       Device          "Configured Video Device"
>       Defaultdepth    24
>       Option          "MonitorLayout"
> "CRT,LFP"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>       Identifier      "Default Layout"
>  screen "Default Screen"
>       Inputdevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"
> EndSection
> Section "Module"
>       Load            "glx"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The file is completely stock with the exception of Option
> "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP" which I added
> to enable VGA-out when I first
> got the external monitor. Until today it had successfully
> output
> 1680x1050 (which is the native resolution of both the
> laptop's screen
> and the external monitor) but now I am getting 1680x1050 on
> the
> laptop's screen, yet 1440x900 at the VGA-out (both at
> the same time).
> The VGA-out screen pans with the mouse to account for the
> differences
> in resolution (not the entire desktop is visible at any
> given moment).
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 

Try adding this to your Section "Screen" after the last entry and before the EndSection

SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Virtual 1680    1050
                Modes           "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection

It worked for me on my LG 22" lcd wide screen monitor using gutsy 64 bit and kde4.1.


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net