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

[Alex Deucher]

Also, FWIW, your card should support any of these resolutions just
fine on either teh DVI or VGA ports.

Alex

On Dec 31, 2007 2:40 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>