[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Wed Jun 6 10:17:08 UTC 2007


Damian Surr wrote:
> I'm ripping my hair out here. Trying every modeline under the sun but 
> can't get the screen to put up anything other than the default 800x600.
>
> Could someone tell me how to at least see whatever error messages may be 
> being given? All I know at the moment is that everytime a restart X or 
> reboot it looks exactly the same still, so I try one other alternative 
> way of adjusting the modeline etc. I'm working blind though as I don't 
> know how to see any error output.
>
> Cheers
> Damian
>   

A couple of others have given you the log paths. Possible reason for 
your 800x600 limit, outputting to S-video or composite. That is the max 
for those outputs. HDMI or standard VGA output could be reading the info 
provided by the monitor which is telling it that 800x600  is the max.
 



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