[Savage40] Thinkpad T23 and external monitor 1680x1050

[Gianluca Interlandi]

It works!

I have only tested it with an old 19" CRT monitor though. But I was able 
to set 1680x1050 by using the option "UseBios" "FALSE". I have a safety 
question though. What happens if I accidentally switch to the laptop LCD 
(by pressing Fn+F7) while the X11 is running at 1680x1050? Am I going to 
damage my laptop LCD? Would "CrtOnly" "TRUE" prevent that?

For those who are interested here is a short description of what I have 
done. I first shut down the X11 server (runlevel 3) and pressed Fn+F7 to 
switch to the external monitor. I started sax2 (I use SUSE linux) and 
selected 1680x1050. I chose to save the configuration (test fell back to 
1400x1050). I manually edited xorg.cong and added

Option       "UseBIOS" "FALSE"

to the Device section. I started the X server and it was really running at 
1680x1050. However, since it was an old 19" 3:4 monitor the desktop was 
squeezed in the horizontal direction. But this should be enough to tell 
that the S3 Savage card is able to bring that resolution. Furthermore, 
1600x1200 worked out of the box without any manual editing. I will post 
another message after testing it with a 20" widescreen LCD monitor.

Best,

   Gianluca

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:

> 
> --- Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > > I've never used sax so I don't really know how it works.  Just add:
> > > Option "UseBIOS" "FALSE"
> > > to the device section of your xorg.conf and restart X.
> > 
> > ok, but how do I change the resolution from 1400x1050 to 1680x1050
> > after I 
> > have restarted X?
> 
> 
> Adjust the monitor section to reflect the hsync and vrefresh of your
> monitor and then add 1680x1050 to the modes line in the screen section
> of your config.  You may have to add a custom modeline if the monitor
> requires special timings.
> 
> Alex
> 
> > 
> > G
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > 
> > > --- Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sorry, I need to ask another question. I use sax2 (SuSE) to setup
> > the
> > > > X11 
> > > > server. If I add "UseBIOS" FALSE (in the Section "Device"?) how
> > do I
> > > > make 
> > > > sax2 consider this option? Or is there a better way of doing it?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I've never used sax so I don't really know how it works.  Just add:
> > > Option "UseBIOS" "FALSE"
> > > to the device section of your xorg.conf and restart X.
> > > 
> > > Alex
> > > 
> > > > Thanks a lot,
> > > > 
> > > >            Gianluca
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > --- Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > > There is some code to manually program the mode ...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Do you mean xmode? Or is there some other code?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > There's code in the driver.  Set option "UseBIOS" to FALSE in
> > your
> > > > > config.  you'll probably have to mess you with you monitor
> > settings
> > > > as
> > > > > well.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Alex
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > >        
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Dr. Gianluca Interlandi gianluca at u.washington.edu
                    +1 (206) 685 4435
                    +1 (206) 714 4303
                    http://biocroma.unizh.ch/gianluca/

Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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