-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Felix,
thank you very much for the pointers. Actually I had tried panning before, but with no results. However, now that I read through the bug report (I did not patch X server), I tried a few more commands and one of the results works lovely. I am not sure if --fb or --panning is doing the trick but in combination, I almost managed to get what I wanted, so case closed. Thanks once more for the tips! Just for the reference: I generated new ModeLine: cvt 896 768 60 # 896x768 59.81 Hz (CVT) hsync: 47.73 kHz; pclk: 55.75 MHz Modeline "896x768_60.00" 55.75 896 944 1032 1168 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync Then: xrandr -d :0 --output LVDS1 --newmode "896x768_60.00" 55.75 896 944 1032 1168 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync xrandr -d :0 --addmode LVDS1 896x768_60.00 xrandr -d :0 --output LVDS1 --fb 896x768 --panning 896x768 --mode "896x768_60.00" This will actually create the correct output for me, but will center it. Thus instead of specifying --mode, I leave this option alone, so it switches back to a useable resolution for the --fb and --panning sizes. I dunno how to tell that the screen should start at --pos 0x0, this will not be accepted. It stays centered even if I say --pos 0x0 . So the commands that work for me now are: xrandr -d :0 --output LVDS1 --newmode "896x768_60.00" 55.75 896 944 1032 1168 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync xrandr -d :0 --addmode LVDS1 896x768_60.00 xrandr -d :0 --output LVDS1 --fb 896x768 --panning 896x768 Note: the broken part of the LCD at the top is so small, that I decided to neglect it and use full height. So now I am only leaving unused the very right part of the LCD. Thank you once again, - -Nikolay On 01/23/2013 05:25 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-01-23 14:40 (GMT+0200) Nikolay Kichukov composed: > >> I have asked several times on IRC about this, but got no response, thus I am >> writing to the list. > >> I have an old laptop that has a broken LCD. The upper and right part are >> corrupt and I would like to position the >> X output some few cm below the upper and right edges of the screen. I tried >> to achieve the above with xorg.conf >> and using xrandr, but so far my attempts have failed. > >> I am running gentoo linux with Xorg version x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.1. The >> laptop is Dell Inspiron 1200 with >> intel 915 video card inside. > >> |-----------------------| |_____________________ | | | | >> | | | | >> | | |_____________________|_| > >> Hope this picture above will not get scrambled. If the bigger rectangle is >> the whole screen, I'd like to have X >> occupying the smaller rectangle, the rest to stay unused. > >> Any hints and suggestions are welcome. > > [To ensure that responses to your post are non-zero] > > Just a suggestion, as I don't know if the there is a solution. Try the patch > attached to > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949 to enable workaround for > broken panning. > > Then set Option "Panning" "800x600" and see what happens. Normally panning is > for an area larger than the display, > but maybe this or this in conjunction with xrandr can help. > > Alternatively, maybe the LCD only provides 1024x768 natively, and by > overriding EDID via xorg.conf to force 800x600 > it may be possible to position its output into the usable area. > > I don't know if laptops provide this, but standalone displays can be manually > sized to dimensions smaller than > full screen, which might allow adjustment to avoid need to use the damaged > area. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRAVOYAAoJEDFLYVOGGjgXDmQIAJJzuvTD6GfqH5qY64VBGI0V DVNCdVwUbrF/NiJiS60zwslpu3ypqJT1KsgBDUFGzIazgdRA5TUyL8MqBSyVqBKQ f6AmHLWZkf4LVJ+R2Wp76LD1pjZvp4HWK8Fb1wtywC3Ry/IZfjtLdxBe9iQd9MIv vQdE86YMDuNCKCaVjW8a0VLemeiHF4NtnpatK3vHgbNFpHofhnqrGRYDzAyr6GQy wSj8oVYLe5SjSt8BWJPbDdRryOTRWg5D3qreL1ACxe9NFdakz9GNLvRQq+rYZrhF VmSM4k3aE/tSkazMX7g9GTvR0ejc/ZHKl7318RS+YlSiiosPgFTnhOEQN/opPoA= =elW5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
