Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 iun 14, 08:03:56, Mike Bailey wrote: > Hello all, > Last week I bought myself a new monitor to replace my old 24" monitor. The > new monitor is a Samsung S27C500, which is connected via hdmi. The monitor > has two inputs: one hdmi, and one vga. I do not have a VGA input on my video > card

Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-18 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:47:04 -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: > > Sure enough, switching to the Vesa driver makes the entirety of the > monitor functional, and performance is pretty fine as well. Thanks a lot > for your help. > Are you sure, that you are using native resolution of monitor? -- V

Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:03:56 -0500 Mike Bailey wrote: > Hello all, > Last week I bought myself a new monitor to replace my old 24" > monitor. The new monitor is a Samsung S27C500, which is connected via > hdmi. The monitor has two inputs: one hdmi, and one vga. [clip] > I am stuck with a probl

Re: Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Mike Bailey
A quick Google returns this interesting link: http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=440&threadid=168568&messid=1324412&parentid=1322139&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Branch indicating even the Windows AMD driver has trouble. Have you tried the vesa driver as a test? Wow! I didn't come across

Re: Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 09:23 -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: > > Is it a multisync monitor? You perhaps need to configure the monitor's > > settings on the monitor. > > > > When using the GUI the frequencies of my monitor are 81.9KHz/89.9Hz, if > > I switch to tty2 the frequencies are 48.3KHz/59.9Hz on a

Re: Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Mike Bailey
A quick Google returns this interesting link: http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=440&threadid=168568&messid=1324412&parentid=1322139&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Branch indicating even the Windows AMD driver has trouble. Have you tried the vesa driver as a test? Wow! I didn't come across

Re: Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Mike Bailey
Is it a multisync monitor? You perhaps need to configure the monitor's settings on the monitor. When using the GUI the frequencies of my monitor are 81.9KHz/89.9Hz, if I switch to tty2 the frequencies are 48.3KHz/59.9Hz on an Arch Linux install using the radeon driver. My multisync monitor remem

Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 08:03:56AM -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: > Hello all, > Last week I bought myself a new monitor to replace my old 24" monitor. The > new monitor is a Samsung S27C500, which is connected via hdmi. The monitor > has two inputs: one hdmi, and one vga. I do not have a VGA input on m

Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 08:03 -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: > If I send an ctrl+alt+f2 to switch to tty2, I am able to use the > entirety of the monitor, which tells me that this is an issue somewhere > in X. Is it a multisync monitor? You perhaps need to configure the monitor's settings on the monito