vesa video driver xorg.conf configuration

leo2501 · 2009-05-15 03:24:52

Well, after countless hard reboots of my msi wind for about a month now, because of a non responsibe black screen after a period of time or inactivity, or a not starting and freezed X, i wanna try the vesa video driver, i don't even use hardware acceleration so much, so i want to see if my problems are the intel driver specificly.

The thing is that with Driver "vesa" option in the "device" section, the resolution is 800x600, not 1024x600 like with the intel drivers.

And yes, i tried xf86-video-intel and xf86-video-intel-legacy and even xf86-video-intel-newest from aur, and a lot of settings involving XAA UXA and EXA accel methods, to name a few things... so im tired, i only want X to behave like i want, and do not do nothing fancy, only work like the good old times...

xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
#    InputDevice    "Touchpad"  "SendCoreEvents"
#    InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
#    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection


Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection


Section "Module"
#    Load  "ddc"
    Load  "dbe"
#    Load  "dri"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
#    Load  "type1"
    Load  "vbe"
#    Load  "record"
    Load  "extmod"
#    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "synaptics"
EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"
#    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
#    Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
#    Option "AIGLX" "true"
    Option "BlankTime" "10" #This blanks screen
    Option "StandbyTime" "0" #This is DPMS
    Option "SuspendTime" "0" #DPMS
    Option "OffTime" "0" #DPMS
EndSection


#Section "InputDevice"
#    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
#    Driver      "keyboard"
#    Option      "CoreKeyboard"
#    Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
#    Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
#    Option      "XkbLayout" "es"
#EndSection


#Section "InputDevice"
#    Identifier      "USB Mouse"
#    Driver          "mouse"
#    Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
#    Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
#    Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
#    Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
#    Option          "Buttons"               "5"
#EndSection


#Section "InputDevice"
#    Identifier  "Touchpad"
#    Driver  "synaptics"
#    Option  "Device"   "/dev/input/mouse0"
#    Option  "Protocol"   "auto-dev"
#    Option  "LeftEdge"   "130"
#    Option  "RightEdge"   "840"
#    Option  "TopEdge"   "130"
#    Option  "BottomEdge"   "640"
#    Option  "FingerLow"   "7"
#    Option  "FingerHigh"   "8"
#    Option  "MaxTapTime"   "180"
#    Option  "MaxTapMove"   "110"
#    Option  "EmulateMidButtonTime"   "75"
#    Option  "VertScrollDelta"   "20"
#    Option  "HorizScrollDelta"   "20"
#    Option  "MinSpeed"   "0.25"
#    Option  "MaxSpeed"   "0.50"
#    Option  "AccelFactor"   "0.010"
#    Option  "EdgeMotionMinSpeed"   "200"
#    Option  "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed"   "200"
#    Option  "UpDownScrolling"   "1"
#    Option  "CircularScrolling"   "1"
#    Option  "CircScrollDelta"   "0.1"
#    Option  "CircScrollTrigger"   "2"
#    Option  "SHMConfig"   "on"
#    Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "on"
#    Option   "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "1"
#    Option   "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "1"
#EndSection


Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    Option "DPMS" "true"
#    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
#    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    Modeline "1024x600@60" 51.90 1024 1056 1248 1280 640 653 660 673
EndSection


Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"             # <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"           # <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"               # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
#    Option      "AccelMethod" "xaa"
#    Option      "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
#    Option      "ExaNoComposite" "false"
#    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
#    Option      "monitor-VGA"    "external"
#    Option      "monitor-LVDS"    "internal"
#    Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
#    Option      "DRI" "true"
#    Option      "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
#    Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
#    Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
#    Virtual 2704 1050
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
        Modes     "1680x1050" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes     "1680x1050" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes     "1680x1050" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection


#Section "DRI"
#    Mode 0666
#EndSection


#Section "Extensions"
#    Option "Composite" "Disable"
#EndSection

Last edited by leo2501 (2009-05-15 03:25:21)

kamiheku · 2009-05-15 05:42:45

I'm probably making myself look like an idiot, but you could try removing all the other resolutions from the Modes lines, except the resolution you want (1024x600).

leo2501 · 2009-05-15 10:38:08

just tried, and no... it didn't help i don't understand how to set it right

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
#    Virtual 2704 1050
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
        Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

kamiheku · 2009-05-15 15:56:30

Aww... Too bad. That's all I could come up with... Strange that no one else has replied. Surely some pro could help you much better than I can!

leo2501 · 2009-05-16 23:24:59

well i give up with the vesa driver (tried uvesafb, fbset, modelines, xrandr --newmode's, grub kernel line's), so i returned to the "intel" driver in UXA accel method, at least it work, so maybe i will implement something to workaround it's lookups until it works okay someday from here...

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#1 2009-05-15 03:24:52

vesa video driver xorg.conf configuration

#2 2009-05-15 05:42:45

Re: vesa video driver xorg.conf configuration

#3 2009-05-15 10:38:08

Re: vesa video driver xorg.conf configuration

#4 2009-05-15 15:56:30

Re: vesa video driver xorg.conf configuration

#5 2009-05-16 23:24:59

Re: vesa video driver xorg.conf configuration

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