[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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