Guest Belgarath Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 (edited) I've installed Mandriva Spring (Gnome version) on my eee pc and on the whole everything works very well. The exception is when I attempt to use an external screen. The problem seems to be that xrandr misreports the resolutions that external monitors are capable of (I've tested this with three screens now so the screens aren't at fault). For example, an external crt capable of 1280x1024 is only shown as capable of a maximum of 800x600 - the maximum any external screen appears to report. The output of xrandr -q is shown below: [steve@eeepc ~]$ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 800 x 600, maximum 2080 x 1024 VGA connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 306mm x 230mm 800x600 60.3* 800x600_60 60.0 640x480 66.7 60.0 LVDS connected 800x480+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 800x480 60.0*+ 640x480 85.0 72.8 75.0 59.9 720x400 85.0 640x400 85.1 640x350 85.1 I've played around with my xorg.conf file and the relevant sections include the virtual entry, along with mode lines. See below: Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 800x480" HorizSync 31.5-37.9 VertRefresh 40-70 ModeLine "800x480_60" 29.58 800 816 896 992 480 481 484 497 -HSync +Vsync Modeline "800x600_60" 38.22 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 622 -HSync +Vsync Modeline "1024x768_60" 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync Modeline "1280x1024_60.00" 108.88 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1060 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "TV" Option "Ignore" "True" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Intel 810 and later" Driver "intel" Option "DPMS" Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "1" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024_60" "1024x768_60" "800x600_60" "800x480_60" Virtual 2080 1024 EndSubsection EndSection From what I understand I shouldn't need to add an additional entry for the external screen, and in theory the virtual entry in the screen section should be sufficient. Has anybody got any idea how I can force xrandr to report the external monitor's capability correctly? Edited April 19, 2008 by Belgarath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Hi there, There is a French article being translated which , I think, talkes about this problem. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Magnum03 I hope this helps, I haven't read it all yet.. Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Belgarath Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 (edited) Many thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know. Update It worked thanks, once I removed the horizontal and vertical refresh rates Edited April 19, 2008 by Belgarath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Excellent, I think the admin will want you to edityour first post and write [solved]... I have to do that on my eeepc because I use it now and again on my TV and I lose the bottom of the picture Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Belgarath Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Cheers Stef, now done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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