monitor resolution and performance problems

[rodh]

I did a recent reinstall and upgraded to 9.04 and now my video is basic.

ASUS Motherboard K8S-MX w/ Onboard SiS Chipset for video and sound. Sound is working good and I have 800X600 resolution but that leaves me with about half the screen of of the monitor. My monitor is a HP w2007 wide screen LCD Flat panel. I have looked over on ubuntu forums and kubuntu forums but have not been able to find anything on the SIS video drivers or how to set them up. I did learn that there is a SIS 190 in the repo's and I tried to install via the synaptic package manager but did not fix the video problems. Does anyone know anything about the SIS chipset drivers and how to get them working. Thanks in advance.

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#  sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

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

rod@rod-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS965 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 47)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 182 SATA/RAID Controller (rev 01)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

[Vegita]

Re: monitor resolution and performance problems

it should work by getting to a kosole-only area without X ('su -' then 'init 3') login there as root, and now write on a paper this, coz you won't be able to copypaste
so you got only konsole, logged in as root
type 'Xorg -configure'
test the new X: 'X -config xorg.conf.new' (you should be able to quit with ctrl+alt+backspace, if not, then keyboard issue in X, then you just don't have to copy, update the old one instead)
if _works_, then: 'cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf'
restart your computer (or startx), and if xorg's resolution still sucks, then rewrite by hand the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines (e.g.: as root (sudo or su -): 'nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf' and then seek for HorizSync and VertRefresh
I had the same issue on a very very old laptop with debian: 800x600 was small for me with a Trident video card (noname of nonames), but I could find the values. I had to write there in something like in /etc/(?/)libvga.conf comments (I used kruasder root mode and copied from there), and on next reboot, it started as 1024x768x70Hz and it was then fullscreen.
Anyway all distros use Xorg -configure except suse (sax2) and *buntu, it's only nvidia, who doesn't like it always