Re: toshiba video problem
On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 15:32 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Noah Sombrero wrote:
> > > I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509),
> > > yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the
> > > display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any
> > > reference on the web that shows how to adjust that, although there are
> > > some before xrandr when xorg.conf was still used, that might have done
> > > it. Since then, everything is supposed to be automatic and simply
> > > work. No workee.
> >
> > This is just some quirk of how Toshiba chose to implement this
> > display, and it can be fixed with an altered modeline.
> >
> > In xorg.conf, or a file in xorg.conf.d, you need an entry of
> > this format. Note that this is an example of the format, not the
> > right answer for you - among other things, I bet it's not
> > connected on HDMI.:
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> > Identifier "Monitor-HDMI1"
> > VendorName "LGD"
> > ModelName "ULTRAWIDE"
> > Modeline "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 1111 -HSync -VSync
> > Option "PreferredMode" "2560x1080"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Via xrandr instead, applying such a thing would look like this:
> >
> > xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 1111 -HSync -VSync
> > xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080"
> > xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080"
>
> I tried this. debian accepts the newmode line
> I can't add the new mode to hdmi1, so I tried VGA. Debian doesn't
> like that. What would be the valid output name in this case?
What outputs are listed when yo run 'xrandr' with no arguments?
On my laptop it shows the laptop's screen as 'LVDS-1', along with all
the display modes it supports, as well as the other unused interfaces:
VGA-1, HDMI-1 and DP-1.
--
Tixy
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