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[Ferdinand Haselbacher <fhasex20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To make it on the list:

which screen do you have? 1024x768 doesn't work, it is a 4:3 resolution?

have you tried xrandr manually?


mfg
Ferdinand
Jon Vaughan wrote:
> Thanks for replying! (although it doesn't work for me,
> unfortunately).  The options I get to select from are 1360 x 768, 1152
> x 864, 1024 x 768 (same as before - I did have a virtual section
> setup, just not quite the same size) and other smaller resolutions. 
> Its a 4:3 screen so 1360 x 768 no use, and when i pick 1152 x 864 all
> sorts of things go wrong, nothing is clickable and I have to power
> off.  I'm doing VGA to analog in on the monitor, is that what you do? 
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Ferdinand Haselbacher
> <fhasex20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:fhasex20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Jon Vaughan wrote:
>     > Hello X301 users!
>     >
>     > Have any of you managed to get more than 1024 x 768 resolution on an
>     > external VGA monitor under Linux?  I've done a fair bit of googling
>     > and various xorg.conf tweaking but not getting anything useful.
>     >
>     You need a virtual setting in your xorg.conf
>
>     for e.g.:
>     Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
>     EndSection
>
>     Section "Screen"
>        Identifier    "Default Screen"
>        Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
>        Device        "Configured Video Device"
>        SubSection "Display"
>            Virtual    3080 1900
>        EndSubSection
>     EndSection
>
>     Section "Device"
>        Driver "intel"
>        Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
>        #Option "NoDRI"
>     EndSection
>
>
>     this should work! OOB
>
>     so far,
>     ferdinand
>
>
>
>
>
>
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