John on S8

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:14:47AM +0800, John wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >Is your hardware capable of higher resolution?  If so, that would imply 
> >that
> >the autodetection probe was not successful, and there may be a bug report 
> >in
> 
> the Acter 77c? CRT. As I said, the Gateway was driving my 20" Sun at 
> 1600x1200. This monitor probably does 1280x1024 at 60 with some flicker. It 
> won't suit everyone; my wife and eldest daughter would complain (S 
> because everything's too small, Rebekah because it flickers).
> 
> >it.  I'm attaching instructions for how to test.  Is this a CRT or an LCD?
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> That's not going to happen until I have wireless running in it.

If you can run XRESPROBE_DEBUG=yes xresprobe ati, you will get some very
useful information about what the xresprobe utility is doing.  It's
likely throwing away 1280x1024 at 60 precisely because it will look
terrible; it's instead shooting for the monitor's optimum resolution of
1024x768.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
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