Comments on: XRandR – finally, simple monitor configuration for Linux http://blog.frith.co.za/2007/12/06/xrandr-finally-simple-monitor-configuration-for-linux/ Ramblings about life, university, mathematics, computing, Linux, open source, etc. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Hrvoje Vencl http://blog.frith.co.za/2007/12/06/xrandr-finally-simple-monitor-configuration-for-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-3460 Hrvoje Vencl Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:17:33 +0000 http://blog.frith.co.za/2007/12/06/xrandr-finally-simple-monitor-configuration-for-linux/#comment-3460 Hello. I have been reading the text above. For some time now I have not been able to turn on the S-video out on my ATI RADEON 9200SE. I just recently installed the Ubuntu 8.10 and I am totally new to the world of Linux. I do not use the FGLRX drivers from ATI (it all stops when I install them) but the drivers that came with the Ubuntu installation. So, can you explain me in a simple way how to turn on the S-video out on my card (it used to work fine under Windows but now with Linux i don't). If it helps here is the report after typing the xrandr command in terminal: hrvoje@hv-desk:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1680 x 1200 VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 310mm x 230mm 1024x768 85.0*+ 85.0* 85.0 75.1 75.0 70.1 60.0 1680x1050 60.0 1600x1024 60.2 1400x1050 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 60.0 1440x900 59.9 1280x960 60.0 1360x768 59.8 1152x864 75.0 75.0 70.0 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 85.0 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 640x480 85.0 85.0 75.0 72.8 75.0 60.0 59.9 720x400 85.0 640x400 85.1 640x360 70.0 640x350 85.1 DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Hello. I have been reading the text above. For some time now I have not been able to turn on the S-video out on my ATI RADEON 9200SE. I just recently installed the Ubuntu 8.10 and I am totally new to the world of Linux. I do not use the FGLRX drivers from ATI (it all stops when I install them) but the drivers that came with the Ubuntu installation. So, can you explain me in a simple way how to turn on the S-video out on my card (it used to work fine under Windows but now with Linux i don’t). If it helps here is the report after typing the xrandr command in terminal:
hrvoje@hv-desk:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1680 x 1200
VGA-0 connected 1024×768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 310mm x 230mm
1024×768 85.0*+ 85.0* 85.0 75.1 75.0 70.1 60.0
1680×1050 60.0
1600×1024 60.2
1400×1050 60.0
1280×1024 60.0 60.0
1440×900 59.9
1280×960 60.0
1360×768 59.8
1152×864 75.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
832×624 74.6
800×600 85.0 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3
640×480 85.0 85.0 75.0 72.8 75.0 60.0 59.9
720×400 85.0
640×400 85.1
640×360 70.0
640×350 85.1
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

]]> By: Joe http://blog.frith.co.za/2007/12/06/xrandr-finally-simple-monitor-configuration-for-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Joe Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:27:36 +0000 http://blog.frith.co.za/2007/12/06/xrandr-finally-simple-monitor-configuration-for-linux/#comment-340 Hi, Nice post you've got there, and agreed about how badly-needed xrandr was. I'd like to note a couple of things, firstly, Ubuntu comes with displayconfig (or displayconfig-gtk, depending on your choice of window manager); in my experience I've found that this tool works decently and fairly reliable. For some reason though, I prefer to work at the command line, maybe it's just me. The second thing I'd like to point out is one of your closing comments, "I hope that distros will start setting it [the screen size] to a sensible default automatically." This is kind of dilemma for distro developers, as X cannot support direct rendering on screens that are larger than 2048x2048. In my experience, I've found that most of the newer distros tend to use 2048x2048 as the screen size, which is a sort of compromise, considering that going any larger would mean forcing any users who wanted to game or do anything serious with their video cards to manually edit their xorg.conf file. It's not great, but I guess we'll just have to live with it. Hi,

Nice post you’ve got there, and agreed about how badly-needed xrandr was. I’d like to note a couple of things, firstly, Ubuntu comes with displayconfig (or displayconfig-gtk, depending on your choice of window manager); in my experience I’ve found that this tool works decently and fairly reliable. For some reason though, I prefer to work at the command line, maybe it’s just me.

The second thing I’d like to point out is one of your closing comments, “I hope that distros will start setting it [the screen size] to a sensible default automatically.” This is kind of dilemma for distro developers, as X cannot support direct rendering on screens that are larger than 2048×2048. In my experience, I’ve found that most of the newer distros tend to use 2048×2048 as the screen size, which is a sort of compromise, considering that going any larger would mean forcing any users who wanted to game or do anything serious with their video cards to manually edit their xorg.conf file. It’s not great, but I guess we’ll just have to live with it.

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