Widescreen resolutions with VESA driver

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Joe Bloggs
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Recently installed Trisquel 5.5 STS on my rig with AMD Radeon HD6670. Obviously, no 3D-accellerated driver for it, so I installed Trisquel in VESA mode. I presume, it is still running in the same mode. I can bear it as I plan to use this rig for typing/watching videos.

However, I can not set any 16:10 resolution because there is no such option in GUI (only 4:3 and 5:4).

I have tried to correct the issue by changing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/x11/xorg.conf.vesa as follows (changes in bold):


Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
*SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection*
EndSection

Two questions:
1) Which file should I have changed?
2) What/where should I change in file to get 1680x1050 32 bit 60 Hz (LCD)?

Eagerly awaiting response.

Joe Bloggs
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Joined: 10/03/2012

Seems that "bold" have not worked this time. See asterisk sign (*) at the beginning of first inserted line and same at the end of last inserted line.

Magic Banana

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Joined: 07/24/2010

Is the "radeon" driver completely non-functional with Linux-libre? I would try this driver otherwise ("vesa" may not be able to use any 16/10 resolution).

Joe Bloggs
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Joined: 10/03/2012

Magic Banana,
Seems that you are right about widescreen & VESA driver. I have found in Mageia 2 wiki that VESA driver "doesn't support many common widescreen resolution".

As for AMD/ATI driver - it is not functional on my rig, PC never loads into GUI.