Need help on setting up graphic card: Rendition Verite 2x00

[jundu88]

hi, i've just installed fc3 and have problems with x. i can get the graphical display, but with huge font and worst resolution. it appears to be graphic card/display setting, but fc3 detected and set my hardware drivers correctly:

graphic card "rendition verite 2x00".
monitor "nec multisync fe700".

i've played a little bit with "xorg.conf" file, without any success. here is part of it:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModeName "NEC MultiSync FE700" (tried "Monitor 800x600", with no diff)
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 31.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 55.0 - 120.0 (tried 50.0 - 70.0, with no diff)
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocar0"
Driver "vga"
VendorName "Videocard vendor" (tried "rendition" with no diff)
BoardName "Rendition Verite 2x00" (tried "vesa" with no diff)
Endsection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 8 (was 16, but didn't show displat at all)
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16 (tired 8 and 24 with no diff)
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" (last one added, which won't make diff)
EndSubSection
EndSection

any suggestions?

:confused:

[jamdusr]

From gnome you can click on the Applications>System Settings>Display and choose a different resolution under the settings tab. Or Preferences>Screen Resolution might work also.
After you edited xorg.conf did you shutdown X and restart it again?

[slayer548]

I had this exact same problem last night. See if this (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?rendition+4) page helps any.

The first thing I did was updated all my xorg packages. Then I changed my device section to this:


Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "rendition"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Rendition Verite 2x00"
ChipSet "v2x00"
Option "NoDDC"
EndSection


I don't know if overriding the auto chipset detect and turning of DDC helped or not. The main part is changing the driver to rendition. Then, down in the Screens section, I did this


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800X600" "640X480"
EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024X768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Now I can get into X, but the problem I'm having currently is that I can't seem to get a resoultion higher than 800x600. Changing xorg.conf doesn't help, and the panels in both GNOME and KDE display 800x600 as the highest possible value. It is pretty frustrating to say the least.