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Kurapica
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 Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject: xorg xfce4 vesa resolution problem |
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Hi,
I just installed gentoo, I set my graphic card driver as vesa, installed xorg , and then xfce4.
The problem is that I can't manage to get resolution to go over 800x600 in xfce4. In ubuntu on this laptop my resolution is set to 1280x800 , but no matter what I write into xorg.conf file nothing changes.
this is my current setting for xorg
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cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 7000M (rev a2)"
BusID "PCI:0:18:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1280x800"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1280x800"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1280x800"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1280x800"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1024x768"
Depth 24
#Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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but when I start xfce4 and look info about resolution form xwininfo I get this
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xwininfo: Window id: 0x1400003 "Desktop"
Absolute upper-left X: 0
Absolute upper-left Y: 0
Relative upper-left X: 0
Relative upper-left Y: 0
Width: 800
Height: 600
Depth: 24
Visual Class: TrueColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +0+0 -0+0 -0-0 +0-0
-geometry 800x600+0+0
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any idea , I really don't wish to install any type of propriatery drivers for nvidia, but 800x600 is to small resolution for me to work in  |
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Kurapica
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 9:32 am Post subject: |
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I played a little with xorg.conf file , and came to conclusion that problem which I have is related to xorg and vesa driver
I can set resolution to be 640x480 , but I can't set it to go over 800x600
Does any one have any idea ? I read on the net , that vesa can go to even 1600x... resolution |
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ronmon
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Joined: 15 Apr 2002
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Location: Key West, FL
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 11:11 am Post subject: |
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If you are just wanting to avoid proprietary drivers, try the open source "nv" module. Add a line to your /etc/make.conf.
Then edit your xorg.conf accordingly.
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