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tadada

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Registered: 2008-06-25

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] X and my new monitor

Recently (3 days ago) I got a new monitor. An upgrade from a 5 year old 1280x1024 beast to a nice 1680x1050 with a 10000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. (makes all my 3D games look so purtty)
Originally I had set up X with "hwd -xa" and then "aticonfig --initial". When I got my monitor I reran "aticonfig --initial". It ran fine for 2 days.

Today my computer boots. I login and then execute startx. (I don't autostart X for debug issues (like now for example) last time I had to turn off SLiM from autostarting using RIPLinux) Screen goes black as usual but then I get the monitors error that says the resolution is too high. The thing is aticonfig set xorg to autodetect. I sputz around in my xorg.conf looking... and then look at the help for aticonfig. It has "aticonfig --resolution=0,*insert resolutions". So I run "aticonfig --resolutions=0,1680x1050,1440x900". I run startx. I then see wmii but I also see my monitors message saying it is adjusting for the non-optimal resolution (1440x900). I try the aticonfig -resolution command without the 1440x900 and it gives too high resolution again. Now I'm stuck.

I can verify that the monitor is working at 1680x1050 because at the moment I'm on my windows box at that resolution. (I use a Belkin usb vga switch between the two)
The monitor is a LG Flatron W2252TQ.

xrandr also believes that 1440x900 is the max for the monitor. I know that his monitor has windows and mac drivers so I'll see if I can find a linux one

EDIT: I miss wmii. Just now on my windows box I tried to use wmii's keyboard shortcut.

Last edited by tadada (2008-07-16 10:53:29)

tadada

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Registered: 2008-06-25

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] X and my new monitor

I figured it out. It had the wrong refresh rates. I looked up the specs and found that the minimum refresh rates in bot horizontal and vertical were off so I fixed it and started  X back up. xrandr now reports 1680x1050 and the image looks a lot better.

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: [SOLVED] X and my new monitor

That's wonderful.

Please mark this thread as solved.  Thank you.