X accepted resolution

Tom Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Wed Dec 31 01:49:28 UTC 2003


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Yohann Desquerre wrote:

> I would be intereted in a command which can give me all the
> resolution my graphic chipset is able to perform !!!

It is a combination of the graphic chipset and the monitor
capabilities that defines your maximum.  

In /etc/X11/XF86Config  you will find two sections
something like:
   Section "Monitor"
   Section "Device"
Together the describe your monitor and the display device (card).

XF86 will take the maximum and minimu monitor scan rates and the
max/min pixel clock rates for the card and compute the choices
for each color depth.

With a normal setup these choices will be listed in 
/etc/X11/XF86Config in this section:
	Section "Screen"
under one or more subsection that looks a bit like:
SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "640x480"

Sometimes the detection of the monitor will fail
or the tables in the release will be 'conservative'.
If this is important then go to each vendors site and 
check.

Some caution is advised, bad numbers can overclock and 
perhaps damage hardware.

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	T o m  M i t c h e l l
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