[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 09:13:41 UTC 2007


On 08/06/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:

> Out of interest, you know how people with a friendly monitor can specify
> something like:
>
> Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>
> without any modelines?
>
> Well if I use (for example):
>
> Modeline "1024x768_60" 64.56 1024 1056 1296 1328 768 783 791 807
> Modeline "1024x768_70" 78.36 1024 1056 1352 1384 768 783 792 807
> Modeline "1024x768_75" 85.56 1024 1056 1376 1408 768 782 792 807
> Modeline "1024x768_85" 100.94 1024 1056 1432 1464 768 782 793 807
> Modeline "800x600_x" 48.18 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 626
> Modeline "640x480_y" 30.25 640 664 728 816 480 481 484 501
>
> and then:
>
> Modes       "1024x768_60" "1024x768_70" "1024x768_75" "1024x768_85" "800x600_x" "640x480_y"
>
> would that try all of those mode lines until it found one that worked?
>
> That was one of the things I was trying towards the end of the day on Wednesday.
> Trying to find a way to try lots of modelines...

Damian,

Read http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=454217&postcount=1 and see
if this gets any clearer. It should answer both of your above
questions (at least).

-- 
Nick

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