Wolfgang Mueller
This last statement did not give me any information on the display type, but produced the following error Message: ,---- | xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default ,----
Strange, you should be getting something like this: ,----[ Output of "xrandr --verbose ] | Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192 | VGA1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (0xb4) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm | Identifier: 0x41 | Timestamp: 35222446 | Subpixel: unknown | Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0 | Brightness: 1.0 | Clones: | CRTC: 0 | CRTCs: 0 1 | Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 | filter: | 1024x768 (0x46) 65.0MHz -HSync -VSync | h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.4KHz | v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.0Hz | 800x600 (0x47) 40.0MHz +HSync +VSync | h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz | v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.3Hz | 800x600 (0x48) 36.0MHz +HSync +VSync | h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.2KHz | v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.2Hz | 848x480 (0x49) 33.8MHz +HSync +VSync | h: width 848 start 864 end 976 total 1088 skew 0 clock 31.0KHz | v: height 480 start 486 end 494 total 517 clock 60.0Hz | 640x480 (0x4a) 25.2MHz -HSync -VSync | h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.5KHz | v: height 480 start 489 end 492 total 525 clock 59.9Hz | 640x480 (0x4b) 25.2MHz -HSync -VSync | h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.5KHz | v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.9Hz | 1680x1050_60.00 (0xb4) 146.2MHz -HSync +VSync *current | h: width 1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew 0 clock 65.3KHz | v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089 clock 60.0Hz | HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) | Identifier: 0x42 | Timestamp: 35222446 | Subpixel: unknown | Clones: | CRTCs: 0 1 | Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 | filter: | force_audio: 0 (0x00000000) range: (-1,1) | DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) | Identifier: 0x43 | Timestamp: 35222446 | Subpixel: unknown | Clones: | CRTCs: 0 1 | Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 | filter: | force_audio: 0 (0x00000000) range: (-1,1) | HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) | Identifier: 0x44 | Timestamp: 35222446 | Subpixel: unknown | Clones: | CRTCs: 0 1 | Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 | filter: | force_audio: 0 (0x00000000) range: (-1,1) | DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) | Identifier: 0x45 | Timestamp: 35222446 | Subpixel: unknown | Clones: | CRTCs: 0 1 | Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 | 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 | filter: | force_audio: 0 (0x00000000) range: (-1,1) `---- What is the output of: ,---- | lspci -nn | grep VGA `---- and post your Xorg.0.log.
,---- | /usr/bin/xrandr --newmode "1600x900_60.00" 118.25 1600 1696 1856 2112 900 903 908 934 -hsync +vsync | /usr/bin/xrandr --addmode VGA1 1600x900_60.00 | /usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1600x900_60.00 ,----
What errors do you see if you run the commands in an xterm? Charles -- "A word to the wise: a credentials dicksize war is usually a bad idea on the net." (David Parsons in c.o.l.development.system, about coding in C.)