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luskjh

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Registered: 2009-03-24

Posts: 19

Resolution Problems

Hi,

I installed arch last week and so far love it.  The only major problem at this point is the resoluton -- it is currently displaying at 1024 x 768 instead of 1400 x 900.  I have an ati (Radeon x1300) video card, so I installed both the open source and proprietary ati drivers (xf86-video-ati & xf86-video radeonhd), and then ran hwd to reconfigure X, but to no avail.  After installing obconf (I'm running openbox), it still says that 1024x768 is the highest resolution I can use.  What am I doing wrong?

-Any help on this is greatly appreciated

-jhl

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MoffspringR

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Registered: 2009-03-23

Posts: 36

Re: Resolution Problems

Why not add to xorg.conf to the resolution you want?

for example, in my laptop, the max resolution is 1024x768, but the laptop have 1600x900... I edited my xorg.conf and I add the 1600x900... Ses my xorg.conf:

[...]Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultColorDepth 16
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     1
        Modes "1600x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     4
        Modes "1600x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     8
        Modes "1600x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     15
        Modes "1600x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     16
        Modes b]"1600x900"[/b] "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
        Modes "1600x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     32
        Modes "1600x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

(...)

Edit: Sorry my english

Last edited by MoffspringR (2009-03-25 23:17:05)

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System: ArchLinux 64bits + 2.6.28-Arch + Gnome/KDE
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luskjh

Member

Registered: 2009-03-24

Posts: 19

Re: Resolution Problems

I have had some success (in a way).  For some reason, when I removed all the display subseections in "screen" except for 1400x900, in went from 1024x768 to 1280x1024.  I also removed all the mode lines in monitor (except 1400x900), but that didn't seem to have an effect.  This also now shows up in xrandr as the maximum.  It's beyond me how "1400x900" translates to "1280x1024,",...

Thanks again,

-jhl

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Calm down, it is only ones and zeroes.
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