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
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