Re: toshiba video problem
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?
>
>So that's the how. The what is best explained by this web page:
>https://arachnoid.com/modelines/
>
>Which should be enough for you to work out the specific timings
>needed to get this screen to work.
>
>-dsr-
--
Noah Sombrero
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