Custom Screen Resolution

Jed smaje02 at optonline.net
Sun Dec 28 05:02:20 UTC 2003


Ryan Betts wrote:

>I'm using a laptop with a WXGA screen and I'm trying to add a custom
>resolution of 1280x800 and I cat get it X to recognize the custom
>resolution in XF86Config file. Isearched the mailing list but to no
>avail. Any ideas?
>
>Thanx
>Ryan
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For these weird resolutions you need to generate a X modeline 
specifically for your monitor, and then put this line into your 
XF86Config file.  I used this, 
http://xtiming.soureforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl

This is how I got X to run at 1280x720.

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Jed





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