Modular X

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 02:12 +0100, Bart Vanbrabant wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just installed the new modular X from rawhide. Everything went quite
> good except for two problems:
> 
> 1) The nvidia driver doesn't handle modular X yet. But I solved it by
> manually moving all libraries to their new places. This isn't something
> that should be handled by fedora.
> 
> 2) There were two paths in my xorg.conf that pointed to the old /usr/X11
> places. Those where ModulePath and RgbPath. I changed them like this:
>         RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> It this something that other users could have problems with to? Because
> then a postinstall script should check for this. Do I need to file a
> bugreport?

As an nvidia user I've followed Bart's suggestions after having no luck
getting my card to work with the nv driver.  (I've been using nvidia
anyway (from livna) but was willing to accept that the nvidia drivers
might be buggered for some time).

Anyhoo, I've got my desktop running at something better than 640x480
(the best I could get with the nv drivers) which is great since I've got
an 1920x1200 screen.

It now appears that I'm running 1920x1200, but my gnome desktop is only
using 1600x1200 and this is the best resolution it will give me using
System > Preferences > Screen Resolution.

Options avaiable include:

1600x1200
1400x1050
1280x960
1280x1024
1024x768
800x600
640x480

In my xorg.conf file I have:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
        VertRefresh  60.0 - 60.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA Unknown (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     16
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1920x1200" "1920x1440" "1680x1050" "1600x1200"
"1400x1050" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"        EndSubSection
EndSection

Why isn't 1920x1200 (and other resolutions) showing in the list?


Rodd

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