We have a pVision PDL42T TV (without the TV card) screen as a secondary monitor but the highest resolution I can select from is 1024x768 (of the three) whereas I need to have at least 1280x1024 (max 2048x1536 of 13 options - found from Win Server 2k)
RL8.6 with Wayland reports Unknown monitor in GUI Settings but xrandr list as 2nd monitor:
XWAYLAND1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 59.92*+
800x600 59.86
640x480 59.38
320x240 59.52
720x480 59.71
640x400 59.95
320x200 58.96
1024x576 59.90
864x486 59.92
720x400 59.55
640x350 59.77
The Win2K used a Maxtor Dual screen card to access the 2 monitors. I have now plugged both monitors on to the new MB of the desktop.
Questions:
a) How can I set the resolutions in Wayland for a monitor?
b) Could it be a video card issue?
c) What tools can I install / use?
{BTW After this, I need to have a VM see this config}
Gnome (Wayland) and Gnome (X11) are same Gnome 3, but with different display server.
The Gnome Classic is couple add-ons to Gnome 3 that make it look more like Gnome 2 or something. It comes in package gnome-classic-session (which I don’t even install).
I am relatively happy with my work around that I have now implemented.
a) Selected X11 Classic in the cog wheel
b) I run cvt for the “Width” “Height” (resolutions found for this monitor from Windows 2000 Prof.) and “60” Hz and output to text file.
c) Duplicated entries in text file, replace “Modeline” with "xrandr --newmode " and "xrandr --addmode DP-1 " respectively and on the latter replacement deleted the paramters after mode name.
ie.:
$ cvt 1024 768 60
# 1024x768 59.92 Hz (CVT 0.79M3) hsync: 47.82 kHz; pclk: 63.50 MHz
Modeline “1024x768_60.00” 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
becomes
xrandr --newmode “1024x768_60.00” 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode DP-1 “1024x768_60.00”
- The output “DP-1” I got from xrandr -q
d) After running the script I could select the higher resolutions in the Display resolution options in the Settings GUI.
e) I am not sure if this will be persistent or where I will have to include this script. (X11 config with screen section ?)
f) Now in Vmware Player 16’s Win2k Prof. VM I can still only see one SVGA II driver (and the two old drivers for the old card - which no longer fits on this new machine) One needs to see a separate driver for each display to use multiple displays in win2k. Is there anyway to give the guest OS another virtual card with driver? (- A new thread required)
g) Appropriate resolution (1280x1024) looks a bit out of focus - but so does it on the physical win2k next to it. Other down side is that I now only have one of the two screens available in the VM.