1280x800 Resolution, Garbled Display On Full Screen Games.

servo888 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 293

Ok here's my problem; which seems to be rather new as I haven't had it happen before. Anyways when I launch a 3D opengl game on my 1280x800 resolution desktop the gl game (quake3, ut2004, etc) gets shrunk to 800x600 (which makes sense) but then that window becomes garbled as if it doesn't have the right sync / refresh rate. I have a compaq r3190 laptop, on the Geforce 4 GO graphics, with nvidia 8174-r1. I'm 99% sure it's something with my xorg configuration, because my old modline stopped working so I had to google around for some more. I managed to dig up some common WXGA modlines (from Mandrake). Those are located in a Section "Modes" so I just tell xorg to browse for something it likes.

I can't generate a new modline because I don't know ANYTHING about my laptops LCD only the resolution.

Any help would be loved,
Servo
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agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

Use gtf to generate a modeline. It's included with X.
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servo888 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 293

servo888 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 293

Ok I generated a modline with a known 'good' freshrate of 75Hz, but not with that modline the screen just goes into the garbled mess as soon as x starts.