xorg widescreen problem

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/2/06, Moritz Lutz <moritz.lutz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> i bought a new TFT today the Samsung SyncMaster 205BW. At first i want to
> try it out on my laptop with not that big sucsess.
>
> i got this Xorg config there :
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>      Identifier     "single head configuration"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>     ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>     RgbPath     "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
>     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
>     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
>     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
>     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
>     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
>     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
>     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/util"
>     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>     Load  "dbe"
>     Load  "extmod"
>     Load  "glx"
>     Load  "freetype"
> #    Load  "dri"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>     Driver      "kbd"
>     Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Mouse0"
>     Driver      "mouse"
>     Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>     Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>     Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>     Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier   "Monitor0"
>     VendorName   "Samsung"
>     ModelName    "SyncMaster 205BW"
>     Option       "dpms"
>     # Important. At least on my setup it doesn't detect the size
>     # If not specified, the fonts may look very tiny.
>     # Numbers found on a random web site using Google.
>     DisplaySize  1000 400
>
>     #
>     # Those are the magic values that make it all work.
>     #
>     HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
>     VertRefresh  56.0 - 63.0
>     ## This allowed for resolutions in the 19AAxBBBB
>     ## See also the Virtual directive in Display subsection below
>     #VertRefresh 56.0 - 83.0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "Device0"
>     # Other important bit. The radeon driver is mature enough, as been said
> in #xorg
>     Driver      "savage"
>     VendorName  "ATI"
>     BoardName   "ATI Radeon 8500LE"
>     # Options recommended on dri.freedesktop.org
>     #Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
>     #Option "AGPMode" "1"
>     #Option "AGPFastWrite" "1"
>     #Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
>     #Option "ColorTiling" "1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "Screen0"
>     Device     "Device0"
>     Monitor    "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth     24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Viewport    0 0
>         # Fix the viewable area to 1680x1050, or something
>
>         Virtual     1680 1050
>         Depth       24
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> #Section "DRI"
> #    Group       0
> #    Mode        0666
> #EndSection
>
>
> The screen starts but not the hole screen is on the display i have to move
> to the right and then the end of the display appers. The strange thing is
> the resolution of 1600x1200 works well everything is on the screen but its
> not optimized for the tft so the fonts looks ugly,
>
> If i try the config above on a pc with a ati graka and the ati driver the
> screen looks great.
>
> Maybe some of you got a trick for me to get the tft working with my
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/MX-MV (rev 11)
>

You will have to set useBIOS to false since the bios probably doesn't
have a mode for 1680x1050.

Alex

> card,
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Moritz Lutz
>