Re: How to change display resolution on G5 XServe (YDL 4.0.1) ?

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:15:14 +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:43:23 +0000, Paul Russell wrote:
>
>> I just installed YDL 4.0.1 on a G5 XServe and everything went reasonably
>> smoothly, except it's stuck on 640x480 resolution.
>
> Quick'n'dirty: boot an Ubuntu livecd, copy somewhere the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then set it in your YDL installation
>
> A bit more elaborate: try to discover the horizontal and vertical
> frequencies of your monitor and setup manually your xorg.conf.

.... which is quite easy.
In the Open-Firmware tree, you will find a file with the display EDID
blocs dumped.
find /proc/device-tree -name EDID will give you the file.
Then use a program to dump it (there a program named read-edid somewhere...)
and use the timings from the display prefered mode.
If you don't succeed, mail me the EDID file I'll post the result here.


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