2010-07-16 08:13, Dale skrev: > Erik wrote: >> 2010-07-16 01:51, walt skrev: >> >>> On 07/15/2010 02:15 AM, Erik wrote: >>> >>> >>>> ...This is the >>>> new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old >>>> INSPIRON|8600 >>>> aquired 5 years earlier... >>>> >>> I feel as if I'm reading a post that I selected at random from the >>> middle of a long thread with lots of previous questions and answers >>> that I can't see. >>> >>> I've never heard of either of those products. Maybe someone else >>> knows what >>> they are? >>> >> >> Do not worry about not knowing about the products that I mentioned in >> the parenthesis in the last paragraph (they are just some laptops with >> differend graphic cards built in). You may know enough to help if you >> are familiar with Xorg, in particular the driver called NV (as the first >> 2 lines of my post shows). Do you for example know from where the driver >> gets the bogus physical display size 508 x 317 from, and why it insists >> on using it instead of the configured size? >> > > Are you using hal? If so, you may need to get or change the config > files so that it will run at the settings you want instead of what it > "detects". > > By the way, I have no idea how to edit them. It's in xml. You may > can google and borrow their config file tho. > > If you are not using hal, it should be set in xorg.conf. I don't use > hal and that is where mine is set.
Yes I am using hal. Maybe that is the problem. But it is clear from the log file that xorg.conf is read anyway.
