Carl Parrish wrote:
> So I just got a ViewSonic VA2012wb from Costco (great price there)
> It took me longer than I want to admit to get it working so I want to
> post the important settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (at least in Fedora
> Core 5), for the achives
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "VA2012wSERIE"
>         DisplaySize  430        270
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>         HorizSync    30.0 - 94.0
>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     16
>                 Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1680x1050" "1280x800"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> DisplaySize seems to be the key setting. I don't know how much setting
> the others helped or not (since the monitor just didn't work at all
> until the DisplaySize was set) however with these settings everything
> seems to be working.


I picked one up there too and I'm thinking about getting another because
I really like having dual displays.  :)
I didn't have to set DisplaySize, however.  Here's my xorg.conf under
Kubuntu Dapper:

Section "Files"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # paths to defoma fonts
        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "i2c"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "dri"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "glx"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "type1"
        Load    "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280)"
        Driver          "ati"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "VA2012wSERIE"
        Option          "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9200 Pro (RV280)"
        Monitor         "VA2012wSERIE"
        DefaultDepth    16
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           1
                Modes           "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           4
                Modes           "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection