What if xrandr doesn't have the resolution you need?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:05:29PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I have a Debian box at work plugged into a Dell 24" LCD with 1920x1200
> pixels.  xrandr does not give me this size as an option, however.  The
> box uses an ATI video card, and it is plugged into the VGA input on the
> monitor, if that matters.
> 
> The current size is 1650x1080, which of course looks wrong, but if
> xrandr doesn't give me the option I need, what do I do?

Can you post your Xorg.0.log file and your xorg.conf?

I am curious what it is detecting for the monitor.

Of course using anything but DVI for a resolution like that is crazy
(although it does work with VGA as well).

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Len Sorensen
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