On Monday 23 January 2006 13:23, Anne Bennett wrote:
> Has anyone succeeded in getting X to use a resolution of 1920x1200
> with an ATI RADEON Xpress 200 graphics controller?  I have a nifty
> 23" Acer AL2416W monitor which is capable of 1920x1200, but X is not
> giving it to me.  Interestingly, it logs:
>
> (II) VESA(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
> (II) VESA(0): clock: 154.0 MHz   Image Size:  518 x 324 mm
> (II) VESA(0): h_active: 1920  h_sync: 1968  h_sync_end 2000 h_blank_end
> 2080 h_border: 0 (II) VESA(0): v_active: 1200  v_sync: 1203  v_sync_end
> 1209 v_blanking: 1235 v_border: 0
>
> ... but despite my efforts at persuading it, it ends up giving me:
>
> (**) Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
> (--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1600x1200 (pitch 1600)
>
> I've even tried building an explicit Modeline using the values given above;
> still no luck.
>
> If anyone has made this work, I'd like to see your XF86Config file.
>
> In case it matters:
>   NetBSD version: 3.0
>   port: amd64
>   XFree86 Version 4.5.0
>   Release Date: 16 March 2005
>   Build Date: 18 December 2005
>   Jan 22 18:50:12 quill /netbsd: vga0 at pci1 dev 5 function 0: ATI
> Technologies product 0x5954 (rev. 0x00)

The following did the trick for ATI X300 and 1920x1200 laptop LCD  
(xorg-server):

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   31.5-120
    VertRefresh 50-160
EndSecdtion

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1920x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1920x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1920x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

cheerio Berndt