RedHat on Dell I8600

[Rick Stevens]

Yung H. wrote:
>>It's in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the "Device" section.  Add a line in
>>the section about your video card:
>>
>>	VideoRam  RAM-size-in-kilobytes
>>
>>Again, based on the Dell site, you can have 32M, 64M or 128M of video
>>RAM.  Select one of these lines to stuff in there:
>>
>>	VideoRam   32768
>>	VideoRam   65536
>>	VideoRam   131072
>>
>>You may also need to change the "Screen" section and either change or
>>add the "DefaultDepth" parameter.  It specifies the number of bits
>>used
>>for each color on the screen and is usually a value of 16 (thousands
>>of
>>colors) or 24 (millions of colors).
> 
> 
> Hi Rick!
> 
> Thanks again for the reply. I did the changes on the RAM and the depth,
> however, the maximum resolution I can achieve is still 1024x768, and
> this resolution doesn't accomodate correctly with the monitor. On the
> log file I see that it's taking the correct memory amount but it never
> tries the resolutions I specified? Here's the configuration I have so
> far, does it look good?
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Files"
>          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"
>         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    "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
>         HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
>         VertRefresh  60.0 - 60.0
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nv"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>         BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
>         VideoRam    32768
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1024x768"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>  
> Section "DRI"
>         Group        0
>         Mode         0666
> EndSection
> 
> I don't know if it's okay to send attachments to the list, if it's so, I
> can send the Xorg logfile.

We prefer you didn't, but we'll let it slide this time.  In the future,
try to just insert the stuff you think is necessary into your message.

>                            It's kinda big :) On a side note. I did
> notice that Xorg detected the panel size as 1280x800 which looks about
> right. That's actually the resolution I'm looking to use.

Well, you can try making a copy of the "Modes" line, comment out one
copy (stick a "#" in front of it so you have it for reference), and
delete the first two entries in the copy.  Stop and restart your X
server (just log out) and see if it comes up 1280x800.
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