Laptop Testing

JanC janc13 at gmail.com
Thu May 12 10:21:16 CDT 2005


On 5/12/05, Mircea MITU <mmitu at bitdefender.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:32 -0400, luvdemheels wrote:
> > This is Awesome that you are doing this. I have a sony vaio with a
> > widescreen and right now with hoary the resolution is wrong - cannot
> > get 1280x800 for the widescreen 
> 
> For 1280x800 resolution I had to manually tweak xorg.conf. I'm not using
> sony vayo but a hp pavillion. I'll post tonight my xorg.conf file for
> that laptop.

A acquaintance of me has an Acer with a WXGA (1280x800) screen and I
had to set the resolution manually in xorg.conf too when I installed
Ubuntu (Hoary) on his system.  (This laptop has nvidia graphics.)
It seems like if the config tools for X don't "know" this resolution?

-- 
JanC



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