Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

Lev Olshvang levo at vboxcomm.com
Tue May 5 12:51:09 IDT 2009


Hi,

I have only two resolutions displayed by gnome-display-properties while 
my Monitor  connected to other systems definetly have more than 2 
resolutions available.




 From the Xserver Log I got the following:


(II) VESA(0): Total Memory: 1024 64KB banks (65536kB)
(II) VESA(0): Configured Monitor: Using hsync range of 30.00-98.00 kHz
(II) VESA(0): Configured Monitor: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-160.00 Hz
(II) VESA(0): Configured Monitor: Using maximum pixel clock of 200.00 MHz
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "2048x1536" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1920x1440" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1920x1200" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1920x1080" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1600x1200" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1680x1050" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1600x1024" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1400x1050" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1280x1024" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1440x900" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1280x960" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1366x768" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1360x768" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1280x800" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1152x864" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1280x768" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1280x720" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1024x768" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1024x640" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1024x600" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1024x576" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "960x600" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1024x512" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "720x576" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "853x480" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "852x480" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "848x480" (width too large for 
virtual size)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "720x540" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "800x480" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "720x480" (no mode of this name)
(--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 800x600 (pitch 800)
(**) VESA(0): *Built-in mode "800x600"
(**) VESA(0):  Built-in mode "640x480"
(**) VESA(0): Display dimensions: (320, 240) mm
(**) VESA(0): DPI set to (63, 63)
(II) VESA(0): Attempting to use 85Hz refresh for mode "800x600" (114)
(II) VESA(0): Attempting to use 85Hz refresh for mode "640x480" (111)




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