[mythtv-users] Guides to calculating HorizSync and VertRefresh for xorg.conf? Update: SOLVED!
Denis Papathanasiou
denis.papathanasiou at gmail.com
Fri May 11 23:43:15 UTC 2007
> Just to make sure (and maybe you're right, the file is wrong somehow),
> I've included my "xorg.conf" file in its entirety below.
>
> But first, here's some output from the Xorg.0.log file which confirms
> (at least I think it does) that I've got ServerLayout pointing to the
> TV:
>
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May 11 13:00:25 2007
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> (==) ServerLayout "simple tv configuration"
> (**) |-->Screen "TV" (0)
> (**) | |-->Monitor "Sharp27F631"
> (**) | |-->Device "Videocard0"
> (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
> (==) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>"
>
> And here, towards the end of that file, I'm seeing these kinds of messages:
>
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "640x400" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "320x200" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "720x400" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "360x200" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
> (II) ATI(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range)
>
>
> Here's the xorg.conf I'm currently using; the horizontal and vertical
> ranges came from this site:
> http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/TVout_for_legacy_ATI_cards_using_GATOS#Tweaking_the_X.Org_Configurations
>
>
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "ati"
> Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, NONE"
> Option "TVOutput" "NTSC"
> Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Sharp27F631"
> HorizSync 30 - 50
> VertRefresh 60 - 60
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "TV"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Sharp27F631"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "800x600"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "simple tv configuration"
> Screen 0 "TV" 0 0
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
It was the video card driver!
An admin friend mentioned that X can get confused probing video cards.
So even though Xorg -configure reported this:
Driver "ati"
which I was inclined to believe, since the card *is* made by ATI, when
I changed it to this:
Driver "vesa"
It worked!
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