Problem with 1280x800 Dapper Drake on Acer Aspire 3000

[Darren Albers]

You need to install 915Resolution, read the man page for it for
specifics on how to set it up.  If you are not certain what to set it
to post the question on ubuntuforums.org and I will help there since
this probably isn't approriate for the dev list.

On 3/25/06, Ian Soutar <soutar at horizon.bc.ca> wrote:
> I must congratulate the developers on getting the ACPI for this very
> popular laptop the Acer Aspire 3000 correct.    This is the first distro
> to get it right and I have tried many many distros.
>
> I do have a problem with 1280x800 screen resolution.   This worked on
> all the other distros.   I had to edit the X11 file xorg.conf as shown
> below ... this has always worked before.
>
> How do I get this to work??
>
> Ian Soutar
>
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier    "Default Screen"
>     Device        "Generic Video Card"
>     Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        1
>         Modes        "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        4
>         Modes        "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        8
>         Modes        "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        15
>         Modes        "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        16
>         Modes        "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth        24
>         Modes        "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
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