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I have a Dell External Monitor connected to my laptop. Plugging up my laptop to my monitor via VGA the display is set to 800x600. Used to coming across this issue I just ran the script I made to change the resolution. But after doing that the monitor goes black, and the power indicator changes from yellow to green. Pressing any button on the screen says that the monitor is in "Power save mode" And the only way to get it to turn back in is by lowering the resolution.
my ScreenEXT script
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1600x900@60.04hz, 800x600@60.32hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
output of inixi -Fx
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1600x900@60.04hz, 800x600@60.32hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
My laptop is dual booted with Windows and this is a non-issue, so I'm thinking a driver problem maybe?
Solace Greyowl
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Could you post the output of xrandr? What is the native resolution of your monitor? It seems that you are using the intel driver, is that right?
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Output of xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2624 x 900, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected primary 1600x900+1024+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 380mm x 210mm
1600x900 60.04*+ 39.99
1368x768 60.00
1280x720 60.00
1024x768 60.00
1024x576 60.00
960x540 60.00
800x600 60.32 56.25
864x486 60.00
800x450 60.00
640x480 59.94
720x405 60.00
640x360 60.00
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA1 connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32* 56.25
848x480 60.00
640x480 59.94
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Native resolution is 1024x768 I think. And yes I am using the intel driver (xf86-video-intel)
Solace Greyowl
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According to xrandr, the maximum supported resolution is 1024x768 but the preferred resolution is 800x600. What does happens if you issue the following command:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA --mode 1024x768What is in the script you mention in your post?
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My Screen Ext Script
#!/bin/bash
xrandr --newmode "1024x768_60.00" 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 1024x768_60.00 &&
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768_60.00
When I run
xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768
both monitors are just black.
Solace Greyowl
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