[Wine] Setting Resolution Modes in xorg.conf

[L. Rahyen]

On 2009-01-20 (Tuesday) 02:29:43 Kingoftherings wrote:
> I asked on the Gentoo forums, and surprisingly haven't gotten an answer.
>
> When I run xrandr, I get this output:
>
>
> Code:
> Screen 0: minimum 2960 x 1050, current 2960 x 1050, maximum 2960 x 1050
> default connected 2960x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    2960x1050      50.0*
>
>
>
>
> I'm using TwinView with a 1680x1050 monitor and a 1280x1024 monitor.  And I
> want to set up some different modes in xrandr.  When I try playing Counter
> Strike: Source in wine, it won't let me change the resolution because
> xrandr only has that one mode, and I was told I needed to set up Xorg to do
> other resolutions.
>
> Here are the display portions of my xorg.conf:
>
>
> Code:
> Section "Monitor"
>     # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
>     Identifier     "Monitor0"
>     VendorName     "Unknown"
>     ModelName      "DELL E171FPb"
>     HorizSync       31.0 - 80.0
>     VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
>     Option         "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "Device0"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
>     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>     BoardName      "GeForce 8800 GTS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Device0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     Option         "TwinView" "1"
>     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
>     Option         "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP:
> nvidia-auto-$ SubSection     "Display"
>         Depth       24
>         Modes      "2960x1050" "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
>
>
> As you can see, in SubSection "Display, I tried to set up modes, but it did
> not work, 2960x1050 is the only mode that shows up in xrandr.

	This is what I have in my xorg.conf in Screen section:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "1"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "1"
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "DPI" "99x99"
    Option         "ConstantDPI" "0"
    Option         "FlatPanelProperties" "DFP: Scaling = Native, Dithering = Enabled"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024_60 +0+0, DFP: 1680x1050_60 +1280+0; CRT: 1024x768_60 +0+0, DFP: 1280x800_60 +1024+0; CRT: 800x600_60 +0+0, DFP: 960x600d60 +800+0; CRT: 640x480_60 +0+0, DFP: 720x450d60 +640+0; CRT: 400x300d72 +0+0, DFP: 400x300d60 +400+0; CRT: 320x240d60 +0+0, DFP: 320x240d60 +320+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

	This is what I get from xrandr:

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 240, current 2960 x 1050, maximum 2960 x 1050
default connected 2960x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   2960x1050      50.0*
   2304x800       51.0
   1760x600       52.0
   1360x480       53.0
   800x300        54.0
   640x240        55.0

	As you can see not all resolutions can be used. If you are trying to use wrong resolution it will 
be silently ignored.

	And for games I recommend you to use separate account configured to use only one display. 
At least this is what I do. There is a lot of good reasons to use separate X server for games, 
especially when using two or more displays: no problem with mouse "escaping" window (because 
account for games configured to use only one primary display), easy to switch to 8 or 16 bit depth 
when necessary, better performance because you can disable all desktop effects, and a lot of other 
reasons.

	If you use your primary account (with two displays) for games you probably will often suffer 
from "mouse escaping window" bug and other mentioned above problems.

	BTW, you always can try to use virtual desktop mode (you can turned it on in winecfg) if your 
game cannot find resolution it needs.