1152x870 display resolution

Robert Marcano robert at marcanoonline.com
Mon Nov 17 13:00:24 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:10, Kevin Street wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:51, Robert Marcano wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:36, Andy Green wrote: 
> >  
> > Section "Monitor"
> >         Identifier   "Monitor0"
> >         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
> >         ModelName    "IBM P70"
> >         DisplaySize  330        240
> >         HorizSync    29.0 - 82.0
> >         VertRefresh  50.0 - 120.0
> >         Option      "dpms"
> >         UseModes    "P70Modes"
> > EndSection
> 
> I'm using this:
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
> 	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
> 	ModelName    "IBM P70"
> 	DisplaySize  330	240
> 	HorizSync    30.0 - 85.0
> 	VertRefresh  48.0 - 150.0
> 	Option	    "dpms"
> EndSection
> 
> I put these HorizSync and VertRefresh numbers in by hand based on the
> P70 manual that I got with my monitor.  I'm not sure where the original
> 29-82 kHz and 50-120 Hz numbers are generated but they don't match the
> book.  My monitor works fine and has not (yet) lit itself on fire. 
> YMMV.  I normally use 1280 x 1024 at 75 Hz, which is fine for my eyes.

Thanks for you help but that didn't workout, I detected that the problem
is related to the Intel 845 video bios that does not allow this
resolution, someone upgraded the BIOS before I installed fedora, I found
in google that Intel windows drivers do some tricks to bypass the bios
restrictions but the XFree86 driver is not able to do that

> 
> xrandr says I can get these modes and refresh rates:
>  
>  SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
> *0   1280 x 1024   ( 332mm x 241mm )  *75   60
>  1   1152 x 864    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85   75
>  2   1024 x 768    ( 332mm x 241mm )   84   75   70   60   87
>  3    800 x 600    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85   75   72   65   60   56
>  4   1280 x 960    ( 332mm x 241mm )   60
>  5   1152 x 768    ( 332mm x 241mm )   54
>  6    896 x 672    ( 332mm x 241mm )   60
>  7    832 x 624    ( 332mm x 241mm )   74
>  8    700 x 525    ( 332mm x 241mm )   74   70   59
>  9    640 x 512    ( 332mm x 241mm )   75   60
>  10   640 x 480    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85   75   72   60
>  11   720 x 400    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85
>  12   640 x 400    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85
>  13   576 x 432    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85   75
>  14   640 x 350    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85
>  15   576 x 384    ( 332mm x 241mm )   54
>  16   512 x 384    ( 332mm x 241mm )   84   75   70   60   87
>  17   416 x 312    ( 332mm x 241mm )   74
>  18   400 x 300    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85   75   72   60   56
>  19   320 x 240    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85   75   72   60
>  20   360 x 200    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85
>  21   320 x 200    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85
>  22   320 x 175    ( 332mm x 241mm )   85
> 
> I'm using the top four in my XF86Config:
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier "Screen0"
> 	Device     "Videocard0"
> 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
> 	DefaultDepth     24
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth     24
> 		Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 





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