915resolution

[O. Sinclair]

HI Thomas,
am afraid it is not that simple unless Dapper has sorted a long time
problem. the 915resolution "talks" to bios about resolutions that xorg will
normally not discover for Intel 915 and some other graphic "cards" (they are
motherboard-cards)

Sinclair

On 16/09/06, Thomas Sperre <thcsp at online.no> wrote:
>
> Laurdag 16 september 2006 08:20 skreiv O. Sinclair:
> > Struggling with getting my Dell Inspiron 500m to show its native
> resolution
> > which is 1400 by 1050. The software for this is 915resolution that I
> loaded
> > via Adept. I can run it and have tried all sorts of settings but nothing
> > happens. What is it that I am not getting?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Sinclair
>
> I don't know 916resolution and what that does. However, it sounds to me
> like
> you at the basic level here is missing a modeline for 1400x1050 in your
> xorg.conf.
>
> Just to try to explain what I mean. This is what it looks like in mine:
> myuser at mymachine:~$ more /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> ...
> ...(i am skipping non related stuff on top of the filehere)
> ...
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Device          "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
>         Monitor         "SyncMaster"
>         DefaultDepth    24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport 0 0
>                 Depth           24
>                 Modes           "1600x1200"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> ...
> ... (there is more below but that is not relevant, i think)
> ...
> The line starting with Modes i think is what you are looking for. I have a
> flat panel display with 1600x1200 resolution, and I am not really
> interesteed
> in using any other resolution, so I don't have any alternatives. However,
> if
> your desired screen selection is not in this list of modes, it will not be
> selectable.
>
> This is a "modeline" from a previous version of my xorg.conf:
> Section "Screen"
> ...     (skipping)
>         Subsection  "Display"
>                 ... (skipping)
>                 Modes           "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
> "1152x864" "1
> 024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
>                 Endsubsection
>         .... (skipping)
> EndSection
>
> With this modeline, all the listed resolutions are selectable from within
> the
> Kmenu>System Settings>Display>Size, Orientation and Positioning.
>
> You will want to check that in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf the 1400x1050 is
> listed
> in the "modeline". (Notice there may be several sets of these for various
> colour depths, and you need it in all).
>
> If you are not familiar with editing the xorg.conf, you can probably
> google up
> a tutorial somewhere, but always backup the original, and then don't try
> to
> rewrite all of it at once. Ask rather one too many questions than one too
> few. This file is instrumental in getting yorur graphic desktop to work,
> if
> it is destroyed, it can be rebuilt quite easily, but you will have to do
> that
> from a console login.
>
>
>
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