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Xorg resolution
osjbe:
Dear Gurus,
I installed TinyCore through the Core+ CD on a partition of a vintage Sony Vaio computer (PIII, 1.86 GHz, RAM=2GO). This computer is capable of 1280x800 resolution. Graphic card is [AMD/ATI] RV410/M26 [Mobility Radeon X700].
The 1280x800 resolution is used when installing out of the box WinXP, Lubuntu 14.4, Puppy Linux and Vector Linux. By contrast Tiny Core (with Vesa) is using 1024x768 (even if I try to add 1280 800 to the first line in .xsession) hence circles turn into ellipses.
I did install Xorg and again under Xorg I could not succeed to get 1280x800 resolution
onboot.lst contains inter alia :
...lxrandr.tcz
firmware-radeon.tcz
Xorg-fonts.tcz
Xorg-7.7.tcz
xf86-input-evdev.tcz
xf86-video-amdgpu.tcz
I have added to xorg.conf.d
10-amdgpu.conf:
--- Code: ---Section "OutputClass"
Identifier "AMDgpu"
MatchDriver "amdgpu"
Driver "amdgpu"
EndSection
and 10-monitor.conf:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "amdgpu" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800_59.90"
EndSubSection
EndSection
--- End code ---
and X does not show at atart of Tiny Core.
If I remove 10-monitor.conf X opens but not surprisingly with the 1024 resolution.
I have added to /etc/X11/xorg.conf the content of 10-monitor.conf above, X does open (with 1024 resolutions) only if I comment (#) the Driver line in Section Device.
Can you give me a hint at what I should do ? Thanks in anticipation.
malikawan:
Have you tried xrander
osjbe:
yes I did, 1024x768 is the highest resolution available.
Juanito:
Did you try xf86-video-ati?
You could also try without xf86-video-anything to see if the built-in modesetting driver gives you the resolution you need.
If you take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log you should be able to see which drivers Xorg tries to use and in what order.
curaga:
amdgpu is the driver for Radeon HD8000 and newer cards. You need xf86-video-ati.
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