On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 04:46 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Actually there's apparently not much "set up" I can do
with F13 ATM. It's
I'm not convinced you've tried it the right way, so far.
obvious F13's Intel driver is the biggest problem here, maybe
generally,
maybe the 845G gfxchip.....
> What monitor *is* this, anyway?
3 different Trinitron CRTs. All old. All work fine @ 2048x1536 with any
Kubuntu, SUSE or Mandriva I throw at them, radeon, intel or mga. They also
work fine @ 2048x1536 using F13 with mga. I don't have F13 on radeon or Intel
(other than 845G) to try.
>> On Factory, Cooker and Lucid, I can accomplish what I want. This is from
>> working Lucid on the same box just a few days ago (but it's using 2.6.32):
>>
http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/Buntu/ has xorg.conf and data files, with
>> xorg.conf.02-1600x1200x120x16bpp-buntu910-intel being the xorg.conf that
>> works fine in Lucid but not when used in F13.
> They are likely using older X server, kernel and intel driver, so
Those are also devel distros targeted for release relatively close to the
same time as F13, so "older" one wouldn't expect to be by very much.
Kubuntu
Not really. Fedora is generally rather a way ahead of other distros when
it comes to X.
Lucid seems stuck on 2.6.32 kernel, but Factory & Cooker are
using 2.6.33.
OTOH, all but F13 are on X 1.7.5, while F13 is showing 1.8.0rc1.
Also check the version of the Intel driver. I know I've read Ubuntu is
staying with intel 2.8, Fedora is on 2.10.
> they're not very comparable. Ubuntu's results seem nuts
- it claims
> 2048x1536 as a 'probed' mode. Very few monitors are capable of that.
I have 7 under this roof that can do 2048x1536, only one of which had a
non-zero acquisition cost, and one real oldie that only can do up to
1920x1440 (NEC P1150). The NEC is the only one I can get F13 to do better
than 1024x768 on using i845G. I only tried 1600x1200 on it, but got 1920x1440
on it from SUSE 10.2.
Oh, yeah, I forgot you're the guy with the crazy monitors...
The Xorg.0.logs and xorg.confs for the 4 displays and bunches of
F13s, SUSEs,
Kubuntus & Cookers are in
http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/Xorg/ . 31 files
created in past 50 or so hours. Some of the logs from the newest X versions
do not include customary probed mode info, so I've included several older to
prove modes above 1024x768 up through 2048x1536 can get found via probing.
I've appended xrandr output to several too.
I suspect there's a bug here which is that Fedora's intel driver doesn't
probe all modes correctly. You should file that. Beyond that, it's just
a configuration issue, you need to set your xorg.conf to correctly
disable probing and manually define the mode you want to use. I provided
instructions which ought to be able to achieve that.
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