On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
>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.: Thanks. I did find suggestions like this online. But it appears that xorg.conf is no longer used, and is indeed missing from xorg.conf.d. So I can simply create a new file with these entries and put it in place? >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- -- Noah Sombrero
