Cant set screen resolution to 1440x900

[braiam]

Hello guys and ladies, my first post at kubuntuformus

All I want is to set kde to 1440x900, but it always displays at 1280x768

This is my setup
Monitor: HP w17e (best resolution is 1440x900@60)
Graphics Adapter: 01:05.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5874 (data from lspci)


Procedures I've tried
Procedure: Changing Settings from System Settings or kcontrol
Result: The module Monitor & Display is not loaded (see attachment)

Procedure: Changing or removing xorg.conf and restarting X
Result: Nothing special happens, it continues working ok, but not at desired resolution

Procedure: Running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and restarting X
Result: Nothing special happens, it continues working ok, but not at desired resolution

Procedure: Running dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and restarting X
Result: Nothing special happens, it continues working ok, but not at desired resolution


Procedure: Removing ~/.kde/share/config/displayconfigrc and restarting X
Result: Login is not possible. Must restore displayconfigrc


This is the output of running displayconfig

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/displayconfig", line 1755, in <module>
  displayapp = DisplayApp()
 File "/usr/bin/displayconfig", line 441, in __init__
  self.xsetup = XSetup(self.xconfigpath)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/displayconfigabstraction.py", line 394, in __init__
  self._finalizeInit()
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/displayconfigabstraction.py", line 404, in _finalizeInit
  gfxcard._finalizeInit()
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/displayconfigabstraction.py", line 1123, in _finalizeInit
  screen._finalizeInit()
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/displayconfigabstraction.py", line 1588, in _finalizeInit
  (cw,ch,x,x) = self.x_live_screen.getSize()
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/xf86misc.py", line 77, in getSize
  return self.sizes[self.currentsizeid]
IndexError: list index out of range

This is the output of running xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 768, maximum 1920 x 1200
VGA-0 disconnected 1280x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
 1280x768 (0x62)  80.1MHz
    h: width 1280 start 1344 end 1480 total 1680 skew  0 clock  47.7KHz
    v: height 768 start 769 end 772 total 795      clock  60.0Hz

And this is xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver     "kbd"
    Option     "XkbRules"   "xorg"
    Option     "XkbModel"   "pc105"
    Option     "XkbLayout"   "latam"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "Configured Mouse"
    Driver     "mouse"
    Option     "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier   "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier   "Default Screen"
    Monitor     "Configured Monitor"
    Device     "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier   "Default Layout"
    Screen     "Default Screen"
EndSection

I dont know what else should I try. I know you smart guys must have the solution, thanks in advance, and I hope I can contribute to this community

[Rog131]

Re: Cant set screen resolution to 1440x900

Do you have errors in the xorg log ?
Konsole:

grep "(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Something to try

Backup xorg.conf and then change

Section "Screen"
    Identifier   "Default Screen"
    Monitor     "Configured Monitor"
    Device     "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

to

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"ATI Technologies Inc unknown device"
	Monitor		"HP w17e"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Modes		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Is this helping ? Any errors ?

[braiam]

Re: Cant set screen resolution to 1440x900

Thanks Rog for the reply.
I've just tried your suggestion, but nothing happened. After restarting X, I have the old and ugly resolution.
Modifying /etc/X11/xorg.conf seems to have no effect in X settings

this is the output of

grep "(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(EE) RADEON(0): No connected devices found!
(EE) RADEON(0): Using VGA default

Humm... RADEON?? Do I have a Radeon??. Well, with or without radeon, all I want is to change screen resolution to 1440x900
thanks

[Rog131]

Re: Cant set screen resolution to 1440x900

Is this EDID bug ? > EDID fail

Current xorg in Hardy usually autodetects your monitor, it's resolution, dpi, etc. and everything just magically works. This happens because modern monitors can be queried for 'EDID' data, that returns all the necessary info to configure things properly.

However, there are cases where the monitor fails to report EDID. These exhibit themselves as a variety of symptoms, often including incorrect resolution selection...

To determine if you have this issue, simply run `sudo ddcprobe` or `sudo get-edid | parse-edid`, and you will see 'EDID fail' in the output.

What tells ?:

sudo get-edid | parse-edid

Or maybe this helps > Topic: How to fix monitor resolution problem

[braiam]

Re: Cant set screen resolution to 1440x900

Thanks again Rog

To run sudo get-edid | parse-edid I had to sudo apt-get install read-edid

and this is the output of

sudo get-edid | parse-edid

get-edid: get-edid version 1.4.1

    Performing real mode VBE call
    Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
    Function supported
    Call successful

    VBE version 200
    VBE string at 0x11110 "ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series"

VBE/DDC service about to be called
    Report DDC capabilities

    Performing real mode VBE call
    Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
    Function supported
    Call successful

    Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
    Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
    0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
    Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
    Read EDID

    Performing real mode VBE call
    Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
    Function supported
    Call failed

The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
Error: output block unchanged
parse-edid: parse-edid version 1.4.1
parse-edid: IO error reading EDID

Nice, more info about my video device "ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series".
But IO error reading EDID does not makes me happy

I've read the bug in launchpad, and the monitor is plugged with the cable that came in the monitor box. I will follow some instructions that are there, and I will post again.

Thanks