2. Re: [PC-BSD Trac] #250: user set screen resolution in X not used (PC-BSD)<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:27:51 -0000<br>
From: "PC-BSD" <<a href="mailto:trac@pcbsd.org">trac@pcbsd.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Trac-bugs] [PC-BSD Trac] #250: user set screen resolution in X not used<br>
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#250: user set screen resolution in X not used<br>
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Reporter: bkn | Owner:<br>
Type: defect | Status: new<br>
Priority: minor | Milestone:<br>
Component: XOrg Configurator | Version: 8.0-RC<br>
Keywords: |<br>
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Changes (by bkn):<br>
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* priority: major => minor<br>
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Comment:<br>
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To be fair, i just installed ubuntu 9.10 in vmware and the same behavior<br>
exists (not only in KDE but gnome). This bug is not specific to PC-BSD.<br>
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Ticket URL: <<a href="http://trac.pcbsd.org/ticket/250#comment:1" target="_blank">http://trac.pcbsd.org/ticket/250#comment:1</a>><br>
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------------------------------<br><br></blockquote><div><br>My comment is that the screen resolution set in X must be a resolution that is supported by the display. <br><br>I experienced that problem in the past trying to make a portable with a max resolution of 1024x768 do something greater. Thus X will not do something beyond the screen limits.<br>
<br>In another experience, I used both Display Setup Wizard and manual configuration of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to set a display resolution that was below the maximum resolution that the monitor was capable of doing, but was not a supported resolution. I could not figure out why X reverting the display to 1024x768 even though the settings I had typed were below the maximum and were still listed in xorg.conf. However, after checking the specs for my monitor on the manufacturer's web site, I found that I had set a resolution that was not equal to but somewhere between the monitor's supported resolution sets. Once I set a supported resolution in xorg.conf, it always produced a reliable result.<br>
<br>In conclusion, you should set resolutions that are supported by the display.<br><br>Ian Robinson<br>Salem, Ohio <br></div></div>