fixed aspect scaling and 16:10 modes

Rafi Rubin rafi at ugcs.caltech.edu
Fri Apr 10 16:58:08 PDT 2009


> The driver doesn't ignore modelines, your configuration is just
> incorrect for a randr 1.2 capable driver.  You need to associate your
> monitor with a particular output since you have more than one (LVDS,
> VGA-0, and DVI-0).  Since your monitor is not linked to a particular
> output, it gets associated with the first output enuerated, which in
> your case is VGA-0:
> (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 using monitor section Monitor0
> Hence all your user specified mode end up associated with VGA-0 rather
> than LVDS.
> 
> Either rename your monitor to the name of the output you want to
> associate it with:
> Identifier   "Monitor0" -> Identifier   "LVDS"
> or create a manual association in your device section:
> Option "Monitor-LVDS" "Monitor-0"
> 
> See section III. of this page for more information:
> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

Ah, missed that bit.  Sorry to waste you time on that.


Thanks a lot for the work you've been doing recently.  You have really made my laptop considerably more pleasant to use.

Rafi


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