Bug#480360: xserver-xorg: Should have a means of generating xorg.conf refresh and resolutions for non-ddc monitors
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:49:34 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> AFAIK there is no way with the new xserver-xorg to generate the
> horizontal refresh and vertical refresh semi-automatically (that is
> without having to memorize typical ranges for hand-editing an
> xorg.conf) and/or specifying monitor resolutions, in the absence of
> DDC. This presents problems in certain cases such as the Toshiba
> Satellite 1800, which is based on the Trident Cyberblade/i1 video
> chipset, and for which DDC is broken (using autodetect = DDC on that
> machine hangs the machine) I submitted a report to Ubuntu for the
> problem when I found it the laptop (which I don't have avaible now),
> but it made me aware of the shortcomings of switching to autodetection
> without providing easy tools for fallback xorg.conf creation in the
> event autodetect doesn't, or can't, work.
>
> I can dig up the Ubuntu report if you wish. (I included working and
> non-working xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log)
>
The cvt and gtf utilities, shipped in the xserver-xorg-core package,
can help generate modelines that you can copy directly in your
xorg.conf.
Cheers,
Julien
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