[SWLUG] Can't set right resolution on new 24" monitor

[Matthew Moore]

Well, I've gone back to basics a bit and I'm using the following:

http://pastebin.com/m640e52c5

Just to try and get my 24" going with out the dual screen.  But no luck what 
so ever, everytime I put that modeline in there, it won't parse the xorg.conf 
file and I have to put the comment back in.  Even if it just says "1920x1200".

Oddly enough my old monitor, the 19" which never used to go beyond 1280x990 on 
Hardy, now configures perfectly.  Is there some kind of information file 
somewhere which gets the config for that?  Could I get the config of this 
monitor added so that it autodetects properly.  I can't wait 6 months for the 
next version of Ubuntu to fix this.

I know that xorg is moving towards automatic configuration and wondered if that 
had something to do with it.

Matt

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 could just be that your modelines are too detailed... My section of xorg.conf 
just goes:


Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x824" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection

You could try something similar, if you haven't already... 
or try making it set itself up.

$ sudo bash
# X -configure  (If I remember correctly)

What happens when you try that auto-generated file (it gets saved in your 
root's home dir)?

Rich

--- On Sun, 2/11/08, Matthew Moore <matt at matthewmoore.org.uk> wrote:
From: Matthew Moore <matt at matthewmoore.org.uk>
Subject: [SWLUG] Can't set right resolution on new 24" monitor
To: discuss at swlug.org
Date: Sunday, 2 November, 2008, 9:00 PM

As I'm getting no answers on ubuntuforums.org, I'm wondering if there
are any 
people handy with xorg configurations.

I'm trying to setup my new 24" monitor with a 1920x1200 resolution as
a 
primary and my old 19" monitor as a secondary twinview display.  But I
can't 
get the 24" monitor past 1920x1080.  It works find under XP.  Any idea
why?  
Can anyone massage my xorg.conf into life?  Everytime I change it manually, I 
get parse errors.

xorg.config at pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/m349a804

More detail here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6089814

If someone can help, I'd really appreciate it.  I'll buy you beer in
Cardiff on 
Wednesday if you are there!

Cheers,

Matt