Mode "1600x1200" is larger than BIOS programmed panel size
Phill Wolf
phill.wolf at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 02:43:26 UTC 2005
I have a Dell 2001FP monitor (1600x1200), but I just get a fuzzy
1280x1024 with Fedora Core 4. The higher resolution is on the
pick-list in system-config-display, and if I pick it, the xorg.conf
line gets Modes including "1600x1200". But, next time X
reconstitutes, it doesn't work,* and when I look in Xorg.0.log, I see
good news followed by bad:
(II) NV(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) NV(0): #1: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 60 vid: 16553
...
(II) NV(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) NV(0): clock: 162.0 MHz Image Size: 367 x 275 mm
(II) NV(0): h_active: 1600 h_sync: 1664 h_sync_end 1856
h_blank_end 2160 h_border: 0
(II) NV(0): v_active: 1200 v_sync: 1201 v_sync_end 1204
v_blanking: 1250 v_border: 0
...
(II) NV(0): Mode "1600x1200" is larger than BIOS programmed panel
size of 1280 x 1024. Removing.
(II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (unknown reason)
[Those last two lines are repeated, appearing a total of 5 times.]
What component is issuing this "larger than BIOS programmed panel
size" message? How can I explain to Fedora Core 4 that this video
board and monitor really, truly can display 1600x1200? (They did, in
Windows XP, before I deleted it in favor of Linux.)
The video board is "NVidia GeForce 6800" in a "Dell Dimension 8400"
using "xorg-x11-6.8.2-37" and the "nv" driver, attached to a "Dell
2001FP (Digital)".
* Instead of showing 1600x1200, Fedora Core 4 does something
indescribable, which the programmers probably worked hard on, for
which I greatly respect them, but really I'd prefer the 1600x1200.
It's indescribable, but I'll try: I think FC4 shows a 1280x1024
desktop through a 1280x960 viewport, which I can pan up and down to
visit the whole desktop. 1280x960 is the same aspect ratio as
1600x1200, which is such a nice touch that I'm hesitant to complain
about it. But I'd really prefer true 1600x1200!
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