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Old 11th May 2008
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Default Wrong screen resolution, font size etc.

Good morning Gentlemen,

I have recently installed my new desktop pc with 7.0.

Xorg was configured easily with my Radeon 9000 although I read there are often problems with those cards. Anyway, the radeon driver worked right out of the box with graphics acceleration and everything.

BUT, the X server starts with a 1024x768 resolution, no matter what I do. There is no mod-line with this resolution, no extra xorg.conf file somewhere, it just uses this resolution and I have no idea why. Odd, I can resize the screen to 1280x1024 with xrandr without any problems! Fluxbox then messes up the screen and needs to be restarted. That's when all of the fonts in the application windows become big like a 24 font in an office-document.

I think this has all got to do with the first resolution problem, am I right? Where could I start debugging this error?
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Good morning Gentlemen,
At the risk of scaring off future female members, try to refrain from making such assumptions.

As for your problem, We're not going to be able to help you without at least a copy of your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log files.
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Old 13th May 2008
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Ok, that's a point there

Here's my xorg.conf content:

PHP Code:
Section "Module"
    
Load        "dbe"   # Double buffer extension
    
SubSection  "extmod"
      
Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    
EndSubSection
    Load        
"freetype"
    
Load        "glx"
    
Load        "dri"
EndSection
Section 
"Files"
    
FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    
FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    
FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
    
FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    
FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    
FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    
FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
EndSection
Section 
"ServerFlags"
EndSection
Section 
"InputDevice"
    
Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    
Driver      "kbd"
    
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    
Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
    
Option "XkbModel"   "pc101"
    
Option "XkbLayout"  "de"
EndSection
Section 
"InputDevice"
    
Identifier  "Mouse1"
    
Driver      "mouse"
    
Option "Protocol"    "Auto" # Auto detect
    
Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
    
Option "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section 
"Monitor"
    
Identifier  "videoseven"
    
HorizSync   31.5 79.0
    VertRefresh 56
-75
EndSection
Section 
"Device"
    
Identifier  "Standard VGA"
    
VendorName  "Unknown"
    
BoardName   "Unknown"
    
Driver     "vga"
EndSection
Section 
"Device"
    
Identifier  "radeon"
    
Driver      "radeon"
EndSection
Section 
"Screen"
    
Identifier  "Screen 1"
    
Device      "radeon"
    
Monitor     "videoseven"
    
DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection 
"Display"
        
Depth       8
        Modes       
"1280x1024"
        
ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection 
"Display"
        
Depth       16
        Modes       
"1280x1024"
        
ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection 
"Display"
        
Depth       24
        Modes       
"1280x1024"
        
ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection
Section 
"ServerLayout"
    
Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    
Screen "Screen 1"
    
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section 
"DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection 
The Xorg.0.log file is attached, thanks for helping!
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You should always use "X -configure" to generate a template xorg.conf file, taking some example off the Internet and adapting it to your needs is bound to cause issues.

Anyway, don't specify Vert/Horiz values.. your monitor has DDC functionality.

Right, So:
# X -configure
# $EDITOR xorg.conf.new
# mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

That's all.. post back if you have any more problems.
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Old 14th May 2008
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Hm, I used xorgconf, didn't know there is a difference...
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Old 14th May 2008
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In the Monitor section, try adding this line:

Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"

And see if that makes a difference.
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Old 14th May 2008
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Adam, you just made my day

X -configure didn't work at all btw, still 1024x768 and couldn't even change with xrandr. Same commenting the refresh rate lines...
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Adam, you just made my day
Glad I could help :-)

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Old 14th May 2008
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Now I have the resolution, but only 60Hz. Is that important for a TFT monitor?
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60 Hz is standard on a flat panel. From wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refresh_rate ):

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Much of the discussion of refresh rate does not apply to the liquid crystal portion of an LCD monitor. This is because while a CRT monitor uses the same mechanism for both illumination and imaging, LCDs employ a separate backlight to illuminate the image being portrayed by the LCD's liquid crystal shutters. The shutters themselves do not have a "refresh rate" as such due to the fact that they always stay at whatever opacity they were last instructed to continuously, and do not become more or less transparent until instructed to produce a different opacity.

The closest thing liquid crystal shutters have to a refresh rate is their response time, while nearly all LCD backlights (most notably fluorescent cathodes, which commonly operate at ~200Hz) have a separate figure known as flicker, which describes how many times a second the backlight pulses on and off.
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Refresh rate doesn't matter for TFT monitiors because it is a digital technology. The refresh rate is only used for sending the signal to the monitor, it is then turned back into digital data and the appropriate pixels are flipped. There is no refreshing of the entire screen every specific period in the same way as a CRT works.

The recommended refresh rate for most TFT monitors is 60Hz.

EDIT: Too slow trying to dredge up data from the bottom of my brain.
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