[BUGS] X windows Woes

Glenn Mawby gmawby at yahoo.com.au
Fri Mar 14 17:08:49 EST 2008


Hi,
I'm running OpenBSD 4.2  Xorg 7.2 and X is misbehaving.
X starts ok (using startx) but the there lot of wasted space on the left 
hand side of the screen .
xvidtune prints this,
hsync range 0:  28.00 -  83.00
vsync range 0:  56.00 -  75.00
"1440x900"    106.50   1440 1520 1672 1904    900  903  909  934 +hsync 
-vsyn

If I control Ctl Alt + the all the available screen is used and run 
xvidtune it displays
hsync range 0:  28.00 -  83.00
vsync range 0:  56.00 -  75.00
"1440x900"    136.75   1440 1536 1688 1936    900  903  909  942 -hsync 
+vsync

This looks great, fills the display, everything is in proportion, 
squares are square etc..

I have copied the above mode line in my xorg.conf s
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        #DisplaySize  411 263
        ModeLine "1440x900"    136.75   1440 1536 1688 1936  900 903 909 
942 -hsync +vsync
        #ModeLine "1440x900_106.6"  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 
909 934 +hsync -vsync
        #HorizSync    28.0 - 83.0
        #VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
and
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
        #       ViewPort 0 0
                Modes "1440x900"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

When I restart I would expect X to use all the display but it does not, 
I still get the squashed display.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Glenn.
Sydney.
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