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cksmuck

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 8

SUCCESS!!!...and a question?

I decided to "rough it" and only use the Beginner's Handook and strictly look (not ask) in the Arch forums for answers and I was successful in getting my xorg.conf (actually /root/xorg.conf.new and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf). I really learned alot about the "X" system and how everything configures from the command set. However, I did notice that there aren't many good xorg.conf examples when it comes to screen resolution. I had to trial and error my way into the correct resolution until I got an X server to appear. I could not find any good ATI Rage 128 Pro configurations, all I saw is how high the resolution can get, not what the highest setting I could use was.

My question is, if you have to create your own .conf file for your video card driver (even Vesa) is there anything like hwdetect or X -config that will set all possible resolutions for your card and monitor?

Thanks!
cksmuck...an avid Arch user since 10 minutes ago!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: SUCCESS!!!...and a question?

You can get various information from product reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Diablotek-128Pro- … =de_a_smtd

Maximum Resolution: 1920 x 1200 @ 85hz

cksmuck

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 8

Re: SUCCESS!!!...and a question?

Thanks...but thats not what I'm looking for. I found all possible screen resolutions from the ATI page on this card, but Xorg does not support all of these. What I'm asking is there any command that probes the system for screen resolutions like X -configure probes the system for .conf changes and rewrites the xorg.conf file?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: SUCCESS!!!...and a question?

Try 'xrandr':

[karol@black ~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 256mm
   1440x900       59.9*+
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1280x720       75.0     60.0  
   1024x768       75.1     72.0     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  

It should list all the possible resolutions for the drivers you're using.

cksmuck

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 8

Re: SUCCESS!!!...and a question?

WOW!! Thanks...That is it! It does show me exactly what my Maximum Resolution is (which unfortunately is 1024x768) but that was the missing piece of the puzzle for me!!!!!

Thanks again!!

cksmuck...an avid Arch Linux user since 10 minutes ago...