Noah Sombrero wrote:
> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509),
> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the
> display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any
> reference on the web that shows how to adjust that, although there are
> some before xrandr when xorg.conf was still used, that might have done
> it. Since then, everything is supposed to be automatic and simply
> work. No workee.
This is just some quirk of how Toshiba chose to implement this
display, and it can be fixed with an altered modeline.
In xorg.conf, or a file in xorg.conf.d, you need an entry of
this format. Note that this is an example of the format, not the
right answer for you - among other things, I bet it's not
connected on HDMI.:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor-HDMI1"
VendorName "LGD"
ModelName "ULTRAWIDE"
Modeline "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 1111 -HSync
-VSync
Option "PreferredMode" "2560x1080"
EndSection
Via xrandr instead, applying such a thing would look like this:
xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 1111
-HSync -VSync
xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080"
xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080"
So that's the how. The what is best explained by this web page:
https://arachnoid.com/modelines/
Which should be enough for you to work out the specific timings
needed to get this screen to work.
-dsr-
