On 09-11-11 17:15:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > > Hi, > > I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen > > resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. > > This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the > > output of 'xrandr'. > > The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768. > > I'd appreciate anyone suggesting how to go about it. > > without spending all day relearning how to do it, the basic procedure > is to specify a new mode. > > You can do this dynamically through xrandr at the command line. Read > the manpage for instructions on how to specify a new mode. I believe > it looks similar to the old ModeLine stuff from xorg.conf. Once > you've successfully added the mode through xrandr, you can select it > and test it out. If that works, then you'll want to take the mode > line specification and put it into xorg.conf to make it available to > X on startup.
Before doing that, take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/ xorg.conf, and see why the modes aren't available. If they're all disabled due to "out of range", look at the "Configured Monitor" lines, and possibly edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf "Monitor" section to broaden the range(s) (but don't exceed the manufacturer's specs! If the laptop display vertical range is 60 - 60, then perhaps 59 - 61 will fix it). > There are a couple of modeline calculators available on the net, and > I'm pretty sure there is one available in the standard repo, but I > don't recall the name. I see that cvt and gtf are in Lenny. > hopefully that is enough to get you headed towards a solution. > > A -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
