screen resolution **resolved**

xb9 · 2007-01-10 13:05:08

well i have come to another halt. i have found many post about screen resolution and how to switch em with xrandr to whichever resolution you want. but 1280x800 just is not in there...how do i add this? thanks in advance

manmower · 2007-01-10 13:13:51

What video card/driver are you using?

Most probably you'll get it to work by editing your xorg.conf and adding a custom modeline for your desired resolution to the "Monitor" section (Google "modeline generator" for some help with that). Additionally you need to list the mode in the "Screen" section.

xb9 · 2007-01-10 13:21:17

well i have a 7400go in here, not sure which driver im using...also with this modeline generator how do i figure out what a laptop screen runs at..i have a dell latitude d820 if that helps :cry:

Fatsobob · 2007-01-10 13:28:07

1. nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
2. Input desired resolutions where it goes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
3. Save
4. ????
5. Profit

Here is my xorg.conf to use as an example
http://pastebin.archlinux.org/800

xb9 · 2007-01-10 13:33:45

wow, now im really confused...why do i not have a xorg.conf file...it comes up in nano blank :shock:

Fatsobob · 2007-01-10 13:35:37

Wait, so you are on your arch box right now? o
Do you have Nvidia drivers installed?

xb9 · 2007-01-10 13:37:08

i downloaded some i810 package, not sure if thats the new nvidia driver...i did it from another forum i was reading on how to get this to work

Fatsobob · 2007-01-10 13:40:59

ok well just to be sure of this.
pacman -S nvidia
then once you have those drivers installed
nvidia-xconfig
it should spit out something with a wierd file name
you need to move it from where-ever it is located into /etc/X11/
mv *whatever the new file is* /etc/X11/xorg.conf

manmower · 2007-01-10 13:43:23

By the way, you can safely remove the i810 package, it's a driver for Intel graphics chipsets.

xb9 · 2007-01-10 13:45:57

just to make sure this aint something wrong..
WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.

sh: pkg-config: command not found
sh: pkg-config: command not found
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/XF86Config'

so i copy /etc/X11/XF86Config?

Fatsobob · 2007-01-10 13:46:44

simple type this command
mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/xorg.conf
After that, I suggest a reboot

Arch Linux

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