mrjoelseph@gmail.com writes:

> I've been revisiting my X setup to get better resolution/refresh rate,
> and have run into a problem that I'm not sure on. I'm running an NVidia
> card (with their drivers) on a 19" CRT. What I'd like to have is X
> start in 1400x1050@85Hz. Just getting this is easy enough, but I'd
> still like higher resolutions to be available (with lower refresh
> rates), such as 1600x1200 and
> 1920x1440 for games, movies, rendering, etc. I'd like them to be
> available, but *not* used by default.
>
> The pertinent info from my xorg.conf is the Modes I'd like:
> Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1600x1200" "1400x1050"
> "1280x1024"
> "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>
> I've tried the following: 1) Set ViewPort to "1400 1050" in the
> relevant Display subsection. This simply trims all higher resolutions

The viewport is the size of the virtual screen. A higher resolution
is meaningless so these entries are dropped.

> as if they weren't there. 2) Reorder the xorg.conf Modes line to place
> "1400x1040" as the first entry. This briefly appeared to work great, X
> started up displaying that resolution, but the ViewPort was still the
> 1920x1440 in order to support all indicated Modes.

The viewport defaults to the highest resolution available, and can be
explicitly made larger.

> Any other suggestions as to how I can accomplish this? Again, I'd like
> 1400x1050 for normal desktop use, but be able to switch (via XRANDR) to
> lower *and higher* resolutions. The only other thought I have it to
> place the xrandr -s HxV command in an X initialization script, but that
> seems like a very hackish way to do it, and I'd like it to generally
> start in this mode, independently of which user has logged in.

I can't think of any other solution. If you want all users to have
this behavior, add the xrandr command to whatever global X startup
scripts your system uses (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc here).

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Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com

I would like like to see any solution, too:

- my physical Display is a 16:9 - TV-TFT : 720x1280
- some applications need a bigger - virtual - resolution (i.e.:
1024x1280)
- graphical boot rhgb and gdmlogin start in the biggest - and virtual -
resolution...

Isn't /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc obsolete ?


Måns Rullgård schrieb:

> mrjoelseph@gmail.com writes:
>
> > I've been revisiting my X setup to get better resolution/refresh rate,
> > and have run into a problem that I'm not sure on. I'm running an NVidia
> > card (with their drivers) on a 19" CRT. What I'd like to have is X
> > start in 1400x1050@85Hz. Just getting this is easy enough, but I'd
> > still like higher resolutions to be available (with lower refresh
> > rates), such as 1600x1200 and
> > 1920x1440 for games, movies, rendering, etc. I'd like them to be
> > available, but *not* used by default.
> >
> > The pertinent info from my xorg.conf is the Modes I'd like:
> > Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1600x1200" "1400x1050"
> > "1280x1024"
> > "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >
> > I've tried the following: 1) Set ViewPort to "1400 1050" in the
> > relevant Display subsection. This simply trims all higher resolutions
>
> The viewport is the size of the virtual screen. A higher resolution
> is meaningless so these entries are dropped.
>
> > as if they weren't there. 2) Reorder the xorg.conf Modes line to place
> > "1400x1040" as the first entry. This briefly appeared to work great, X
> > started up displaying that resolution, but the ViewPort was still the
> > 1920x1440 in order to support all indicated Modes.
>
> The viewport defaults to the highest resolution available, and can be
> explicitly made larger.
>
> > Any other suggestions as to how I can accomplish this? Again, I'd like
> > 1400x1050 for normal desktop use, but be able to switch (via XRANDR) to
> > lower *and higher* resolutions. The only other thought I have it to
> > place the xrandr -s HxV command in an X initialization script, but that
> > seems like a very hackish way to do it, and I'd like it to generally
> > start in this mode, independently of which user has logged in.
>
> I can't think of any other solution. If you want all users to have
> this behavior, add the xrandr command to whatever global X startup
> scripts your system uses (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc here).
>
> --
> Måns Rullgård
> mru@inprovide.com