Can't get 1440x900 on ATI Radeon 9200SE-DT

[Alex Deucher]

On Dec 29, 2007 9:17 PM, Kenny Bentley <kbentleyjr at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> I am using an ABIT ATI Radeon 9200SE-DT graphics card on Gentoo Linux
> with xorg-server v1.3.0.0 and xf86-video-ati v6.6.3.  I was previously
> using 1280x1024 on my old monitor, but I got a wide-screen monitor for
> Christmas, and its native resolution is 1440x900.  I was able to get
> that on the kernel with the radeonfb driver, but I can't get it to go
> there in X.  The best I can do is 1280x960, which isn't a true
> wide-screen resolution, at least not for my monitor, because I see
> photos of people and they look fatter than they should.  I can't do
> 1280x800 either, which my monitor supports and would be a true
> wide-screen resolution.  When I try to use 1440x900, I get this message
> in my X log:
>
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using mode "1440x900" (no mode of this name)
>
> Same token with 1280x800, but I really want 1440x900.  I ordered a DVI
> cable online and am expecting it some time next week, but right now I'm
> using VGA, since it only came with a VGA cable.  Does this only with
> with DVI?  I don't see why that would be the case, because I got the
> frame buffer console on the kernel's radeonfb driver at 1440x900 with a
> VGA connection.  Or is there a work-around that would enable me to get
> 1440x900?  Or does the driver just not support it?  My video card should
> support it, because it supports a resolution of
> 2048xSomething-or-other.  (I don't remember the height, just the width.)
>
> Please let me know if there is a way to get that resolution, or if the
> driver doesn't support that, I want to ask that it be added to a future
> version.  I've attached my xorg.conf file in case it helps.  If you also
> need my Xorg.0.log file, let me know.  I tried to send that attached
> before, but I got a response saying my message was too big and needed to
> be approved, so I cancelled it and tried again with just my xorg.conf file.

6.6.3 is pretty old.  you'd probably have better luck with 6.7.19x.
Also, we really need to see your xorg log to figure out what's going
on.

Alex