i855 screen resolution

[Santiago Erquicia]

I bought a HP nv1040us.  It's a centrino based laptop with an i855 
graphical card.

Is that change accessible through the normal bios setup?  In that case 
it should be possible to reset it

Asko Kauppi wrote:
> 
> It does no permanent damage. It changes something with the BIOS mode 
> setup, allowing you to use the otherwise non-supported mode (1280x800) 
> with X11.  I found absolutely no problems with it.
> 
> The only problem I'm facing, is after a Linux session, I need to 
> shutdown, not restart. A restart will freeze the computer, whether the 
> 2nd boot is to Windows or Linux.  The reason?  Could be 855reso, could 
> be ndiswrapper, could be something else?  But that's not too bad.. :)
> 
> What's the model you're refering to anyway?
> -ak
>