Sabayon 3.4 | New Xorg AutoConfig & Screen Resolution

[wolfden]

Take a look here
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Asus_S5N#Xorg

Notice your monitor settings, some missing and some different than above, but that whole page is dedicated to that laptop

[jonnyrockets]

i have been to that page many times before.. the xorg settings don't work for me though. I have tried to replace all the sections from what he has defined, and it does not work, i have to login in at command line as root to restore my xorg settings.

plus the last time that page was updated was in may, so he couldn't have accounted for xorg 7.3 (which does the autoconfig) because it has been the same since before 7.3 was out.

if anyone has ideas just chime in

[zouzou85]

hi, i had the same problem of having the resolutions going back to the one provided in the livecd (even with the cheat codes, wolfden o_0 )
anyway, what i did to fix it was add a line with my SPECIFIC resolution i wanted. so check the following:

The favoured Depth and/or Bpp may be specified here

DefaultDepth 24
Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1600x1200 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
ViewPort 0 0
#Modes "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600$
EndSubsection

as you can see, under section "screen" i added the line

Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1600x1200 +0+0"

right under

DefaultDepth 24

of course you will put YOUR SPECIFIC resolution instead of "1600x1200".
i am not sure if it will work for you or not, but i guess it won't hurt to try.
I hope it works for you
good luck.

[jonnyrockets]

ok that looks promising.. i have an LCD though so i am not 100% sure on the parameters.


Option "metamodes" "LCD: 1024x768 +0+0"


does that look right?

Also i forgot to mention this before... but everything worked perfectly with sabayon 3.3.


Can anyone confirm that this is the correct sytax?

[jonnyrockets]

hmmm am i posting in the wrong spot?

[Raqua]

Did you tried to compare 3.3 Xorg.conf and 3.4 Xorg.conf ?
Found any differences ?

[momocore]

I agree with zouzou85, here's my xorg line for metamodes:

Option "metamodes" "1280x1024_60 +0+0"

I'm running an LCD; notice that the 60 following the underscore is the refresh rate.
Also, make sure to comment out the "Modes" lines

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
ViewPort 0 0
#Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

[j7uy5]

I don't think you are posting in the wrong forum, it is just that the usual fix did not work for you.

If I understand your reference to the 20 pixels that you do not use, you mean that the actual screen resolution appears to be (about) 1044x768. If that is the case, I do not think the problem is with the resolution. It is with the signal timing.

I dual boot Sabayon and Windows, (on a desktop machine) and have two LCD monitors. One of the monitors always displays correctly. The other, when I switch operating systems, shows a black band on the right side of the screen. The resolution is correct, but the signal timing is off. This I assume has to do with differences in the drivers. It is easy to fix, I just have to use the onscreen menu to make the monitor auto-adjust. I have to do this ever time I change from using one OS to the other.

I realize that the laptop does not have a button to do the auto-adjust thing. But this might get you going on a different approach to the problem.

One thing that might work would be to use the xorg.conf from Sabayon 3.3. If you do not have a backup, though, the only way to do that would be to install 3.3 and email a copy to yourself. Or maybe you could boot from the 3.3 live DVD and copy the xorg.conf file from that, see if it is different in any way.

The other thing you might try would be to install an older version of the video driver. It may be the newer video driver, not the xorg.conf file, that is causing your problem. Maybe xorg.conf has nothing to do with it.

[jonnyrockets]

Yeah I have tried... it has led to a lot of confusion on my part. Heres why:

1). Upon changing any variables in my xorg.conf file (which i have successfully done many times in the past) I can no longer run the screen resolution tool. it always crashes.

2). No modifications i have made to xorg.conf have been able to stop the screen resolution tool from crashing.

3) my lcd screen is displaying in a resolution that is * NOT EVEN PRESENT * within the xorg.conf file.

4). upon the fresh install when the screen resolution tool doesn't crash it displays many resolutions that are not present within the xorg.conf file - it is as if there are other elements here that i do not know of.

5). everything worked fine with sabayon 3.3