On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:49:34 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > AFAIK there is no way with the new xserver-xorg to generate the > horizontal refresh and vertical refresh semi-automatically (that is > without having to memorize typical ranges for hand-editing an > xorg.conf) and/or specifying monitor resolutions, in the absence of > DDC. This presents problems in certain cases such as the Toshiba > Satellite 1800, which is based on the Trident Cyberblade/i1 video > chipset, and for which DDC is broken (using autodetect = DDC on that > machine hangs the machine) I submitted a report to Ubuntu for the > problem when I found it the laptop (which I don't have avaible now), > but it made me aware of the shortcomings of switching to autodetection > without providing easy tools for fallback xorg.conf creation in the > event autodetect doesn't, or can't, work. > > I can dig up the Ubuntu report if you wish. (I included working and > non-working xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log) > The cvt and gtf utilities, shipped in the xserver-xorg-core package, can help generate modelines that you can copy directly in your xorg.conf.
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