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Re: increasing screen resolution, nvidia xconf.org



On 09-12-04 23:07:42, Tomislav Butkovic wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been for the last few months trying to figure out how to
> increase the screen resolution on my Dell Inspiron 5150 running 
> Debian Lenny with a GeForce FX Go5200 64mb.
> 
> The maximum screen resolution is currently 1024x768.
> 
> I have entered '1280x1024' into the xorg.conf file under Screen >>
> Modes:
> 
> 
> *****
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Device0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
>     SubSection     "Display"
>         Depth       24
>         Modes      "1280x1024"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> *****
> 
> 
> This does not work, and gives me the following result in the xconf
> log:
> 
> *****
> 
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX Go5200 at
> (--) NVIDIA(0):     PCI:1:0:0:
> (--) NVIDIA(0):     Seiko (DFP-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Seiko (DFP-0): 270.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Seiko (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link LVDS
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x1024"; removing.
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the
> default mode
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select".
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
> (II) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768
> (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (86, 84); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X
> config
> 
> 
> *****
> 
> I am not sure how to proceed, ...
 ...

The rest of the Xorg log would help -- certainly the parts about probed 
and available resolutions are relevant -- and if you are using KMS 
(Kernel Mode-Setting), parts of dmesg.

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