Hey everyone.
I’ve searched the forums and found many cases of people having trouble setting their resolution, but nothing exactly like what’s happening to me.
I have a samsung 971p running on an AGP geforce 6800gt. Using the VGA slot on the card.
I for some reason can’t set my resolution to 1280x1024. Sax2 is able to switch between 800x600 and 1024x800, but whenever I try to switch to 1280x1024, it automatically goes to 1024x800. Even when I test the new resolution in sax2, the test runs at 1024x800.
xrandr shows this:
1024x768 50.0 53.0 54.0*
800x600 51.0 56.0 57.0 58.0
640x480 52.0 59.0 60.0 61.0
832x624 55.0
512x384 62.0 63.0 64.0
416x312 65.0
400x300 66.0 67.0 68.0 69.0
320x240 70.0 71.0 72.0
The desktop resolution tool in the task panel shows the same goofy resolutions and refresh rates.
I also noticed that if I use sax2 to change the resolution down to 800x600, the 1024x768 entry disappears in both xrandr and the desktop tool. Don’t know if that’s important.
Here’s xorg. I’ve noticed that I have no “modes” listed. Don’t know if that’s important. I tried adding 1280x1024 manually, but it did nothing. Can’t promise that I did it right though:
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SaX generated X11 config file
Created on: 2009-01-05T00:25:33-0600.
Version: 8.1
Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/local”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/URW”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/PEX”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/xtest”
FontPath “/opt/kde3/share/fonts”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “dri”
Load “dbe”
Load “freetype”
Load “extmod”
Load “glx”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Driver “kbd”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “7”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “GenPS/2 Genius Mouse”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
DisplaySize 304 228
HorizSync 30-82
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “1280X1024@60HZ”
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “1280x1024”
VendorName “–> LCD”
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection
Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1280x1024” “1280x960” “1280x800” “1152x864” “1280x768” “1280x720” “1024x768” “1280x600” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection
Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce 6800 GT”
Driver “nvidia”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Screen 0
VendorName “NVIDIA”
EndSection
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection
Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “on”
EndSection
Thanks in advance!