On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 10:55:00PM -0500, J. Van Lierde wrote: > Simo Kauppi wrote: > > >On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:40:02AM -0500, J. Van Lierde wrote: > > > >>Hi, > > > >Hi, > > > >>I've been banging my head against this with no luck. > >> > >>I have an Asus P4p800-VM with integrated Intel 865 Graphics running > >>testing. > >> > >>My problem is that I cannot get xorg to give me 1152x864 resolution. > >>Xorg.0.log says there is "no mode of this name". I know the hardware can > >>do this because Windows doesn't have a problem with this. > >> > >>I can get 1024x768 and 1280x1024. > >> > >>After googling, I have tried: > >>- setting video ram to 16MB in the BIOS and in xorg.conf Device section. > >>Xorg.0.log confirms that the driver sees 16MB. > >>- setting the correct HorizSync and VertRefresh values in xorg.conf > >>Monitor section. Xorg.0.log reports those values > >>- inserting modelines in the Monitor section (the current ones are from > >>what knoppix got from it's probe (they seemed reasonable). knoppix won't > >>go above 1024x768). They don't seem to have any affect. > >> > >>Does anybody know what "no mode of this name" means? Does it mean that > >>i810 can't do 1152x864? Does it mean I haven't told it how to do that > >>mode? > > > >I think it means, that the video bios does not know that mode. Have you > >checked if there is a newer bios for your mobo? > > > >I've heard that there are resolution problems with Intel chipsets in X. > >Have you tried the package 915resolution? > > > >$ aptitude show 915resolution > >Package: 915resolution > >[snip] > >Description: resolution modify tool for Intel graphic chipset > > > >HTH > >Simo > > > > > Wow, thanks! All that googling, and not a hint of this utility. > > I've got xorg recognizing 1152x864 (no complaints in Xorg.0.log), but > when I switch to that resolution, I get a blank screen. The monitor's on > screen menus don't even work, so the monitor is real unhappy. Lower > resolutions work fine. > > xvidtune reports identical modeline parameters as I get with this > monitor on another Debian system running XFree86 (I'm switching with a > KVM), so I'm at a loss as to how to attack this. Any ideas? > > I'm sooo close. > > /icebiker Did you try the usual "switch to the console and then back to X" trick? I.e. Ctrl-Atl-F1 Alt-F7. Also, try without the Modelines in your xorg.conf, if you haven't already. Just put the HorizSync and VertRefresh in your Monitor section and the desired Modes in your Screen section. Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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