[ILUG] Dell 2007FP

[Brendan Halpin]

Every couple of years or so I take delivery of a new machine and
have the *pleasure* of configuring X. 

This time it's a Dell 2007FP and Debian's dpkg-reconfigure writes
an xorg.conf what will not even run. Adding a few googled details
makes it run, but I can't make it hit more than 1280*1024. One
wrinkle is that at 1600*1200 it has to have a VertRefresh of 60. 

I'll include an extract from xorg.conf below.


My big puzzle is that I seem to get 1600*1200 for the GDM login
window, and it drops to 1200*1024 when I log in. Could it be that
Gnome is doing something, and that xorg is OK?

Brendan

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Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Generic Video Card"
	Driver		"i810"
	BusID		"PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"DELL 2007FP"
	Option		"DPMS"
# next two lines from http://voltaire.nfshost.com/transfer/xorg.conf
	ModeLine	"1600x1200 at 60" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
	VertRefresh	60-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Generic Video Card"
	Monitor		"DELL 2007FP"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1600x1200 at 60" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection
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Brendan Halpin,  Department of Sociology,  University of Limerick,  Ireland
Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147
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