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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to
From:       Dale <rdalek1967 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-07-16 6:13:26
Message-ID: 4C3FF886.8040801 () gmail ! com
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Erik wrote:
> 2010-07-16 01:51, walt skrev:
>    
>> On 07/15/2010 02:15 AM, Erik wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> ...This is the
>>> new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old INSPIRON|8600
>>> aquired 5 years earlier...
>>>        
>> I feel as if I'm reading a post that I selected at random from the
>> middle of a long thread with lots of previous questions and answers
>> that I can't see.
>>
>> I've never heard of either of those products.  Maybe someone else
>> knows what
>> they are?
>>      
>
> Do not worry about not knowing about the products that I mentioned in
> the parenthesis in the last paragraph (they are just some laptops with
> differend graphic cards built in). You may know enough to help if you
> are familiar with Xorg, in particular the driver called NV (as the first
> 2 lines of my post shows). Do you for example know from where the driver
> gets the bogus physical display size 508 x 317 from, and why it insists
> on using it instead of the configured size?
>    

Are you using hal?  If so, you may need to get or change the config 
files so that it will run at the settings you want instead of what it 
"detects".

By the way, I have no idea how to edit them.  It's in xml.  You may can 
google and borrow their config file tho.

If you are not using hal, it should be set in xorg.conf.  I don't use 
hal and that is where mine is set.

Hope that gives you a couple ideas.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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