ATI video card and wrong resolution [solved]

z0phi3l · 2007-12-10 20:25:24

Hey Archers, finally got Arch on my laptop and I've been mostly lucky on getting things done, like I'm using my wireless to browse, BUT I can't get the right resolution working on my screen, I used the OS drivers and here is my slightly modified xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    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  "xtrap"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
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     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"     # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "Radeon Mobility X1400"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes     "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Anything y'all can see to help?

I'm so used to using nVidia cards that just work I'm a bit at a loss here.

Last edited by z0phi3l (2007-12-10 22:29:59)

dhave · 2007-12-10 20:31:02

I don't believe you mentioned which ATI card you have, but I see you're using the stock vesa driver. I have good success with the opensource driver for ATI:

pacman -S xf86-video-ati

There is also the proprietary ATI driver which some people like:

pacman -S catalyst

Misfit138 · 2007-12-10 20:49:57

Just try adding a VertRefresh and HorizSync to section "Monitor":

HorizSync 30.0 - 130.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 130.0

z0phi3l · 2007-12-10 21:43:28

Adding the Horizontal and Vertical info didn't work, suppose I'll try using the ATI driver

z0phi3l · 2007-12-10 22:29:37

Got it working!

Was not setting a module right for the Prop drivers to work

Arch Linux

#1 2007-12-10 20:25:24

ATI video card and wrong resolution [solved]

#2 2007-12-10 20:31:02

Re: ATI video card and wrong resolution [solved]

#3 2007-12-10 20:49:57

Re: ATI video card and wrong resolution [solved]

#4 2007-12-10 21:43:28

Re: ATI video card and wrong resolution [solved]

#5 2007-12-10 22:29:37

Re: ATI video card and wrong resolution [solved]

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