Screen Res problem, that's not a problem?

[Hlingler]

Hello:

First, although I have an AMD 64 processor, I am using FC6_x86, not x86_64 - don't know if this will be a problem, but we'll see. This 2" wide all-black area: is it blanking part of the desktop, or is it just extra border area???

V

EDIT: Another idea: install package driconf from fedora repo:

Summary : A configuration applet for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
Description :
DRIconf is a configuration applet for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure.
It allows customizing performance and visual quality settings of OpenGL
drivers on a per-driver, per-screen and/or per-application level.

The settings are stored in system wide and per-user XML configuration files,
which are parsed by the OpenGL drivers on startup.

DRIConf is written in Python with the python-gtk toolkit bindings

EDIT#2 I assume that you did try tweaking the monitor settings itself? I.E., does the monitor have any way to adjust display size/placement/brightness/contrast??? If you have just extra blank spece, adjusting size/placement of display via monitor controls may fix this....

[BLiZZaRD]

The black area is not blocking it is just extra area. I have everything on screen and the black border on the side. Basically I have a wide screen monitor and the res (although set to 1440x900 ) is acting like a square monitor.

To date I have tried:

1) monitors own menu controls and auto-adjust.
2) manually adding "Modes" to xorg.conf
3) selecting and overriding system-config-display to use the exact monitor and chipset models, as well as the generic ones.

I set my screen res to 1248x1024 to get rid of the black border, but now everything is tiny ans squished and makes it hard to see (although better to see than when set to 1440x900)

Another interesting thing.. I did a screen shot just to see what it would look like.. it looks PERFECT! no black border and everything is the right size and readable. So methinks the computer THINKS is is showing me the right stuff, but the monitor is not showing what the CPU thinks it is showing.

I will install that package and see what happens.

At this point I don't care the solution, or what it effects (background-wise) I just want me resolution to be what it should

Thanks for the help!

[Hlingler]

I don't recognize that entry:

Viewport   0 0

in your xorg.conf - mine has no such entry, but that doesn't mean it's wrong, but maybe commenting it out....

Also, what happened to the "Section "Monitor""??? You seem to have dropped it....

V

[BLiZZaRD]

I dunno... I didn't do anything to it, LOL ALL I have done to xorg.conf is to add the line "Modes: "1440x900" near the bottom there.

I will rerun system-config-display, reset everything and post my xorg file again... brb

[Hlingler]

Umm...OK, I hope system-config-display doesn't vaporize the "good" changes you've made manually so far...at this point, I would say easiest options are: comment out line: "Viewport 0 0"; if that doen't help, add:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1440x900"
        Option      "DPMS"

If that doesn't help, install driconf and try it.

V

EDIT: OOPs on line ModelName!

[BLiZZaRD]

okay reset everything.. here is the current xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "Generic LCD 1440x900"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

[BLiZZaRD]

driconf is installed... ummm I don't read Greek... LOL what am I doing in there?

EDIT: I commented out the viewport 00 thing... no change...

[Hlingler]

Hold off on that driconf for the moment, and try commenting out line: "Viewport 0 0". IIRC, you already tried commenting out lines: " HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0" and " VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0" and that didn't help.

[Hlingler]

NERTZ! My nvidia driver has borked driconf on my box by replacing several library files. Unfortunately, you're on your own with it: I suggest that you try to play with obvious-looking settings, preferably one at a time, to see if anything helps/changes.

The only other thing for a temporary fix, is to set screen resolution back to the lower value that worked, then adjust desktop font and icon and panel size settings etc. to larger sizes for easier view, until a real fix is found.

Sorry I can't be of more help at this point, but I'm out of ideas.

V

[BLiZZaRD]

Yup, no change either, I took them all out and wrote in the one you posted above. Still no change.

I am going to throw this monitor out the window...

I have an idea... how is the UPnP for monitors on this thing? I am in an office all alone with 15 other computers and different 19" widescreen monitors.. I could just swap them and see what happens, LOL

[Hlingler]

I won't tell if you don't! But really, I'm stumped at the moment, sorry. I'll sleep on it, and if I think of anything else, I'll post back in the AM.

V

[BLiZZaRD]

Well, a little better. I swapped to a 19" LCD wide screen ViewSonic monitor. It's resolution is optimal at 1440x900 also, but it gives the option for 1400x1050, which is a lot better than 12xxx9xx

Atleast everything isn't squished.

If I can figure anything out (or if you can) post back for others

Thanks for the help!

[BLiZZaRD]

The new monitor worked! The old one set to 1440x900 at 60 hz refresh on the Windows machine and the one I swapped set to 1440x900 at 75 hz refresh and everything is perfect!

Thanks to all for the help, I guess sometimes it is just better to get frustrated and come up with alternate plans, LOL

[Hlingler]

Hello:

I'm glad you figured it out - my best guess is that it was either hardware compatibility with the original monitor, and/or possibly the refresh rate. But what you wanted was a working 1441x900, and you got it, so good!

Regards,
V

[BLiZZaRD]

Yes, and it is beautiful....

There is one small thing... the log in screen...

it STILL shows that square screen, not the full screen. I also tried to change the log in screen to a different picture, nothing... It won't change.

BUT I stay logged in 99% of the week anyway, so 45 second on the log in screen really isn't a bother....