[ltp] Caclulating xorg.conf modelines for weird resolutions

[Charles E "RIck" Taylor IV]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 09:54 -0600, Dave Atkins wrote:
> I just saw this on the fedora-devel mailing list and thought this would
> be a nice place to post it as well.

> The question asked in fedora-devel was "Where do I find a ModeLine for
> 1400x900? Should I register it as a bug?"

> One of the replies included a reference to "man gtf" (but not much else
> really).

You might want to add where to get said program.  It's part of the
"fbset" package on Ubuntu, which does not appear to be installed by
default.  (I think it is on Fedora, though).

On Ubuntu,

"sudo apt-get install fbset" will get it.

Then,

"gtf 1024 600 60"

... which will print something like:

# 1024x600 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 37.32 kHz; pclk: 48.96 MHz
  Modeline "1024x600_60.00"  48.96  1024 1064 1168 1312  600 601 604    
  622  -HSync +Vsync

> So, without further ado:
> GTF(1)

> SYNOPSIS
>        gtf     h-resolution    v-resolution    refresh
>        [-v|--verbose] [-f|--fbmode] [-x|--xorgmode]

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