Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

[David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:03:17 +0800
William Kenworthy wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:13 +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> > Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes
> > it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no
> > idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set
> > my old laptop to 1600x1200 in xorg.conf it was ignored and xrandr
> > worked and was persistant.
> > 
> 
> xrandr is part of the problem - it doesnt list the modes that used to
> be available (or that both the monitor and videocard have for that
> matter), only the ones that xorg *thinks* are available (and it
> doesnt seem to think very hard about it), which I am convinced is set
> by Alan's "toss of a coin" method.

Let me phrase the situation a bit differently.  xorg tossed its coin
and decided that 1024x768 is the best that my Radeon x1200 can do.
xrandr is reporting what xorg has already decided, i.e. is a follower,
not a leader.