Wide Screen 1440x900 On Debian?

[SupaRice]

First of all, hello! I'm new to the forums.

Second, I've just purchased a new monitor for my machine, a ViewSonic 19" Wide screen. It's a VA1912wb, just incase that helps. So I'm having issues getting my resolution to native 1440x900. I'm running an ATI Radeon 7000 and I'm not quite sure where to start. Previously I'd cheat by using Knoppix to generate my X config for me and then copying it over if I had this problem, because I basically know enough to be dangerous. However that's not working.

I found this article, but I'm unsure if this is on track with what I need to do or not? Also, I pretty much don't understand this.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...i-drivers.html

Hope I've posted this in the right area, and thanks for any help in advance.

[antidrugue]

I'm running an ATI Radeon 7000

The ATI proprietary drivers only supports RADEON 8500 and up. That doesn't mean they won't work with your card, but just that it isn't suppose to.

Given that your best choice would probably be to use the "ati" driver, if you are on Debian Sarge.

If you use Debian Etch (testing) then you can use the "radeon" one.

On Sarge edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, and on others (Etch) /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Just specify the correct resolution in that same file.

Some instructions to install the proprietary ATI drivers in Debian :
http://wizah.blogspot.com/2006/10/de...i-drivers.html

[SupaRice]

Yeah, I'm on Sarge. I've tried editing the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 config file, but to no avail. I don't game, but I do use GIMP often and play a lot of movies on it with Mplayer so I was concerned with getting good video performance.

So I need to use an ATI driver that isn't the one from ATI's website? And then edit the X config file?

[antidrugue]

So I need to use an ATI driver that isn't the one from ATI's website? And then edit the X config file?

Drivers not from ATI's site are already included in Sarge, no need to worry.

To simply things, you can simply type in a terminal :

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

and choose "ati" as the driver. Also, if you can, specify the right resolution there as well.

[SupaRice]

I did that, and it wouldn't let me specify 1440x900. So I guess this means I'll have to manually reconfigure the config file, I just don't know how to generate the proper Modeline.

X will start, only it comes up in 1280x1024. Which confuses me since, that's not in my X config file.

Any suggestions on that? This is what I have so far...

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse using /dev/input/mice in Kernel 2.6
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"

EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
#       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
        Load  "speedo"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Monitor0"
        Option  "DPMS"  "true"
        VendorName      "CND"
        ModelName       "CND1760"
        HorizSync 30 - 80 # DDC-probed
        VertRefresh 56 - 75 # DDC-probed
        Modeline      "1440x900" 100.000 1440 1456 1464 1480 900 916 924 940 -hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
        #Option     "sw_cursor"
        #Option     "hw_cursor"
        #Option     "NoAccel"
        #Option     "ShowCache"
        #Option     "ShadowFB"
        #Option     "UseFBDev"
        #Option     "Rotate"
        Identifier  "Card0"
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
        Driver      "vesa"
        VendorName  "All"
        BoardName   "All"
#       BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultColorDepth 16
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
           Depth      24
           Modes      "1440x900"
           ViewPort    0 0
        EndSubsection
EndSection

[SupaRice]

Got it! Thanks so much for your help, now all I have to do is figure out why my mouse isn't working right. But I've been through this before...