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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to
From:       Erik <esigra () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-07-16 6:26:06
Message-ID: 4C3FFB7E.70602 () gmail ! com
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2010-07-16 08:13, Dale skrev:
> 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.

Yes I am using hal. Maybe that is the problem. But it is clear from the
log file that xorg.conf is read anyway.

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