FC2 - Screen Resolution woes!!!

[jludwig]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 05:17, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, jludwig wrote:
> 
> >> is really bugging me. I have ATI RADEON 7200 card and Sun 21"
> >> monitor which Sony GDM-20E20. Here is the problem...
> >> 
> >> In the windows manager I can set my resolution to 1600x1200 at 60. It works
> >> great. But when I reboot the box both during "start up" and "login screen"
> >> screen goes blank. Since I set to do "auto login" I do get the desktop but
> >> at 1152x864. This happens every time. I manually have to change the
> >> resolution back to 1600x1200. I am lost. Please Help.
> >> 
> >> Here is /etc/X11/xorg.conf......
> >> 
> >> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
> >> 
> >> Section "ServerLayout"
> >>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
> >>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> >>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> >>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Section "Files"
> >> 
> >> # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
> >> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
> >> # no need to change the default.
> >> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> >> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> >> # the X server to render fonts.
> >>         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> >>         FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Section "Module"
> >>         Load  "dbe"
> >>         Load  "extmod"
> >>         Load  "fbdevhw"
> >>         Load  "glx"
> >>         Load  "record"
> >>         Load  "freetype"
> >>         Load  "type1"
> >>         Load  "dri"
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >> 
> >> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> >> #       Option  "Xleds"         "1 2 3"
> >> # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
> >> #       Option  "XkbDisable"
> >> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
> >> # lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
> >> # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
> >> #       Option  "XkbModel"      "pc102"
> >> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> >> #       Option  "XkbModel"      "microsoft"
> >> #
> >> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
> >> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
> >> #       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
> >> # or:
> >> #       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
> >> #       Option  "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
> >> #
> >> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
> >> # control keys, use:
> >> #       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
> >> # Or if you just want both to be control, use:
> >> #       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
> >> #
> >>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> >>         Driver      "keyboard"
> >>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
> >>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >>         Driver      "mouse"
> >>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> >>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Section "Monitor"
> >>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
> >>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
> >>         ModelName    "Sony GDM-20SE2T5"
> >>         HorizSync    30.0 - 96.0
> >>         VertRefresh  48.0 - 160.0
> >>         Option      "dpms"
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Section "Device"
> >>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
> >>         Driver      "radeon"
> >>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> >>         BoardName   "ATI Radeon 7200"
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Section "Screen"
> >>         Identifier "Screen0"
> >>         Device     "Videocard0"
> >>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
> >>         DefaultDepth     24
> >>         SubSection "Display"
> >>                 Viewport   0 0
> >>                 Depth     24
> >>                 Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
> >> "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >>         EndSubSection
> >> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Section "DRI"
> >>         Group        0
> >>         Mode         0666
> >> EndSection
> >What I don't see here is the amount of video memory available. If the
> >window manager decides you don't have enough it will drop to a lower
> >resolution.
> 
> Never ever put the VideoRam setting in the X server config file.
Snip 
I know that, but, I had no idea how much memory the card had and if you
are not familiar with the card how would you know.
 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>