On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Michael Hast wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm busy making more trouble and breaking more machines, just like
> normal. I'm still fighting with this machine, trying to get it to go
> to 1280x768 resolution (native resolution of the projector),
5:3? That's a weird shape.
> and I must not be doing something right, because it persists to display
> 1280x720.
16:9, normal HDTV shape. Most (all?) widescreen monitors are actually
16:10 (=8:5), but it's close.
Are you _sure_ it's supposed to be 1280x768?
> I'm still playing with Sabayon 2.1.x, Intel i686, bla, bla,
> bla... Here is what the screen section of my xorg.conf file looks
> like:
>
> Section "Screen"
>
> # The Identifier, Device and Monitor lines must be present
>
> Identifier "Screen 1"
> Device "VESA"
> Monitor "Generic Monitor"
> #Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
>
> # The favoured Depth and/or Bpp may be specified here
>
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> ViewPort 0 0
> Modes "1280x768"
> EndSubsection
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> ViewPort 0 0
> Modes "1280x768"
> EndSubsection
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> ViewPort 0 0
> Modes "1280x768"
> EndSubsection
Where is the mode "1280x768" defined? Check X's log file to see what
became of it. It could be that:
(1) it isn't, so
(2) X uses the best match to the info in EDID, so
(3) X uses 1280x720
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