> On a recent fresh install of Lenny, xorg does not start in 1600x1200
Do you know if the bug occured with older versions of the driver?
Could you try some of them by looking at http://snapshot.debian.net ?
I had trouble getting the older ones there to install because of dpkg conflicts. So I installed Etch and it gave similar results:
(II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (exceeds panel dimensions)
(II) NV(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (no mode of this name)
Does it work better if you plug only one of the monitors? Can you try
both monitor alone, and try each of them plugged on each output?
I have now tried all 4 combinations and the monitors always come up with 1280x1024 rather than 1600x1200.
By the way, if you're feeling a bit adventurous, you could you the
"nouveau" driver in experimental.
I tried to install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, which wouldn't install without linux-nouveau-modules. To resolve this I worked out (from reading around) that I should install drm-modules-source and run 'm-a a-i drm-modules'. This failed so I followed the advice in bug 496134 to get it working.
With driver "nouveau", by default, I get 1600x1200 on both screens! xrandr even sees the individual screens although they show the same output by default, and aren't usefully combined into a dualhead large desktop. I get the following error on trying to use xrandr. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it looks like I might be able to address this with a "virtual" line in xorg.conf.
local@pc20:~$ xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --left-of DVI-D-1
xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1600x1600 (desired size 3200x1200)
Cheers,
Andrew.