Dell M4400 && Xorg-vesa && 1920x1200 res?

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, May 14, 2009 a las 04:51:34PM +0200, Stefan Ehmann escribió:

> On Thursday 14 May 2009 10:46:17 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've a brand new Dell M4400 laptop running CURRENT; the nVidia
> > Corporation Quadro FX 770M
> > ship is currently not fully supported by the nouveau driver and I'm
> > bound to 'vesa' driver for that, at least for the moment. The resolution
> > of the laptop is normally 1920x1200, but 'vesa' seems not been willing to
> > use this res. even if the Xorg.0.log has lines saying that there is an
> > internal mode like that but not being used:
> ...
> > (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz
> > (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz
> >
> > (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1920x1200" (no mode of this name)
> > ...
> > (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1920x1200" (hsync out of range)
> 
> Adding a custom modeline and/or adjusting the hsync/vrefresh values should fix 
> this. I'd guess the fallback to the default hsync/vrefresh values is the 
> problem.
> 
> Booting a linux live CD might provide some usable values.

Yes, this worked; but it was terrible slow on window movements;
I've got a small fix for the driver x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv and the
card is now working as it should with the 'nv' module.

Thanks in any case

	matthias
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