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odf

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From: Canada / Québec

Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 13

Xorg working half of the time with 1920X1200 ( Pictures inside )

I can finally get it to work by continually restarting X. Sometimes It takes 1 time ... some other it can takes 10+ times. It is completely random.

This is in 1920X1200 resolution but it doesn't want to take all the screen space. (Samsung 2493HM)

If I use this screen I never get that issue. But the resolution is 1360X768. (Samsung 26'' 720p)

Video Card is a NVIDIA 8800 GTS.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder57)  Mon Aug 11 12:42:04 PDT 2008

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Tue Jun 10 17:15:06 PDT 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8800 GTS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option "PixmapCacheSize" "1000000"
    Option "AllowSHMPixmaps" "0" 
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1920x1200_60 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Many thanks

Last edited by odf (2008-08-27 20:06:12)

robertp

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From: Warszawa, Poland

Registered: 2007-09-11

Posts: 123

Re: Xorg working half of the time with 1920X1200 ( Pictures inside )

Maybe it's a problem with Xinerama. Try commenting out xinerama and twinview lines and see what happens.
It may also be a problem with lines:

    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0

The values are usually autodetected and I am not sure  you passed valid ones.

odf

Member

From: Canada / Québec

Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 13

Re: Xorg working half of the time with 1920X1200 ( Pictures inside )

Thanks you, I found it by trying a DVI cable. Strange thing is it's perfectly working with windows XP on a VGA cable.