On Saturday 18 July 2015 02:41:44 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-07-18 01:51 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> What, if any, video parameters do you have on your kernel cmdline? > > ??? > > ... > > > This isn't TCC, but the XFCE used for a linuxcnc install on those > > machines. Its debian wheezy, 7.8, with a real time patched kernel. > > > > TCC has no such choices here on this machine, but since it works > > reasonably well on this dell 16x9 23"er, I haven't looked that hard > > either. > > > > I have looked at xrandr, but see no controls that would effect that. > > I don't know about controls. I just put > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/setup > > where it will get run when X starts, with whatever mode I want used > uncommented. It works as expected on Jessie with TDE. > > Or, use > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/Linux/xorg.conf-minimal-EDID-workaround > > or one of the others in that directory as a skeleton to create an > xorg.conf file, uncommenting or creating the appropriate PreferredMode > line. I don't recall trying this on Jessie, but it works in > Kubuntu/TDE, > Linuxmint/Cinnamon, Mageia/KDE4 (with kscreen disabled), Fedora/KDE4&5 > (with kscreen disabled) and openSUSE/KDE4&5 (with kscreen disabled). > > > The default seems to be 1280x768. > > I don't recall running across that one before. 16:9 @768 is 136X. > > > There is a 13nnx800 mode but the > > images are bigger than the screen and circles are still smunched > > vertically. 17" AOC monitor on the machine doing the squashing. > > A quick search for 17" AOC 16:9 suggests it should most likely be > preferred/native 1600x900. What modes are listed by xrandr and/or > Xorg.0.log?
Xorg.0.log is in my other reply, Felix. I'm just up, need a quart of coffee I haven't made yet to function correctly. :-\ In any event, the machines in question do not have either an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, nor an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d Here is what is there: gene@shop:/var/log$ cd /etc/X11 gene@shop:/etc/X11$ ls -l total 72 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 16 08:35 app-defaults -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Nov 5 2014 default-display-manager drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 18 12:11 fonts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17394 Sep 29 2009 rgb.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 18 12:11 X -> /usr/bin/Xorg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 18 12:11 xinit drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 25 2012 xkb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 709 Oct 13 2010 Xreset drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 18 12:11 Xreset.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 18 12:11 Xresources -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3517 Apr 8 2009 Xsession drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 18 13:52 Xsession.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 Jan 15 2009 Xsession.options -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 May 24 2013 XvMCConfig -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 601 Nov 5 2014 Xwrapper.config Sort of off-topic, but this is the real world out here. These installs are mostly debian wheezy (7.8) based and use the wheezy repo's for updates, but the install iso came from linuxcnc.org, is latest version. The kernel is a special RTAI patched version & pinned so the update-manager doesn't muck with it. Linuxcnc will not run except in simulation mode w/o that kernel. Currently 3.4-9-rtai-686-pae, but the pae does not work. The RTAI patches are VERY invasive. I have the same situation with a machine I am attempting to make run a newer, bigger mill I am just now brining to life, but it doesn't have enough memory at 384 megs, and is a bit short of cpu as its a 1Ghz Athlon. An HP Pavilion darned near old enough to vote, with an ATI video card running a 26" Samsung tv with a failed tuner as a monitor. TBR when a PSU for a Tyan S2721 gets here. But that one I'll leave running in cold weather as supplemental heat in my well insulated garage. The S2721 is a dual cpu monster server board. Yet TBD is if isolcpus=1 will work, which leaves linuxcnc the total run of one core, improving its IRQ performance quite a bit if doing software stepping on stepper motors. But I've a hardware card for that, so the 1 millisecond "servo" thread is the main thread on machines with the hardware card in them. NVidia drivers, FWTW, can even screw that up with their hundreds of milliseconds IRQ disabling. So they get kicked into the next drainage, the curb isn't nearly far enough. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ 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: %(user_address)s
