Still trying to get to 1680x1050 WAS: Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600

[Derek Broughton]

Frank McCormick wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> 
>>>    Back at it today....I have managed to get the LCD's native resolution
>>> 1680x1050 available...but the task bar slips below the bottom and I have
>>> to mouse down to force it back up. Simply put the screen at 1680x1050 is
>>> too big for the monitor. How do I get around this ???
>> 
>> Then either, your screen isn't 1680x1050, or X hasn't actually selected
>> 1680x1050.  You really can't _be_ at 1680x1050 and yet not have all 1050
>> pixels available.
>> 
>> Try:
>> # grep 1680 /var/log/Xorg.0.log | egrep "^\("
>> 
>> For mine, using a width of 1280 (and dual screens), I see these lines
>> amongs others:
>> 
>> (II) I810(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0   71.00  1280 1328 1360 1440  800
>> 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.3 kHz)
>> (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 1280x800 (pitch 2048)
>> (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode "1280x800"
>> (II) I810(1): Not using mode "1280x960 at 60" (no mode of this name)
>> (--) I810(1): Virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 1280)
>> (**) I810(1): *Built-in mode "1280x1024 at 60"
>> (II) I810(1): Attempting to use 60.02Hz refresh for mode "1280x1024 at 60"
>> (858)
>> 
>> So that says that we're using the two "built-in" modes, and that the
>> virtual
>> size matches them - and we're NOT using 1280x960.  I think you'll find
>> that your virtual size is actually 1680x1260 (ie, 4:3) if your width
>> really is 1680.
> 
> root at frank-desktop:/home/frank# xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050
> default connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
>    800x600        56.0
>    1280x1024      75.0
>    1024x768       75.0
>    640x480        75.0
>    1680x1050      56.0*
> root at frank-desktop:/home/frank#
> 
> However screen is huge and scrollable. A real PITA.
> 
> This has got to be a bug in the i810 driver (which apparently replaced
> the Intel driver. Hope Debian Sid doesn't go to it.

No it's not.  Why don't you just post what I asked for?  If your screen is
scrolling, you're not getting 1680x1050 whatever you think xrandr says.
-- 
derek