Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 24 August 2010 11:23, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No.  I ditched my xorg.conf completely; it had been there just because I
>> couldn't get the Westinghouse monitor to work without it.  The Xorg logs
>> show it recognizes a boatload of
>> modes that the monitor likes, but gives an alibi for not using the HD
>> ones.  The approach
>> does not seem promising.
>>
>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log attached.  I'm paying attention to lines 269 295 327
>> 369 377 380 and 381
>>
>> 269: (II) MACH64(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0  148.50  1920 2008 2052
>> 2200  1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz)
>> 295: (II) MACH64(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x60.0  172.80  1920 2040 2248
>> 2576  1080 1081 1084 1118 -hsync +vsync (67.1 kHz)
>> 327: (II) MACH64(0): Estimated virtual size for aspect ratio 1.7931 is
>> 1920x1080
>> 369: (II) MACH64(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (insufficient
>> memory for mode)
>> 377: (II) MACH64(0): Not using driver mode "1920x1080" (bad mode
>> clock/interlace/doublescan)
>> 380: (II) MACH64(0): Not using driver mode "1920x1080" (bad mode
>> clock/interlace/doublescan)
>> 381: (WW) MACH64(0): Shrinking virtual size estimate from 1920x1080 to
>> 1280x1024
>>
>
> I assume 269 and 295 are related to 377 and 380. I remember i had a lot of
> pain getting a Geforce 440MX to do 16:9, but it was all in the modelines.
> There are some modeline calculators on the web, but be warned that some of
> them produce bad output. I did eventually get it to work after a lot of
> trial and error.
>
> Also because of this;
>
> (II) MACH64(0): <default monitor>: Using hsync range of 30.00-85.00 kHz
> (II) MACH64(0): <default monitor>: Using vrefresh range of 55.00-75.00 Hz
> (II) MACH64(0): <default monitor>: Using maximum pixel clock of 160.00 MHz
>
>
> you may need to set the ranges in your xorg.conf instead. check the monitors
> specs first tho.

What does xrandr -q show?
-- 
Regards,
Mick