Change Screen resolution?
baza
baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Fri Apr 15 23:21:58 UTC 2005
Avinash Sridhar wrote:
>what laptop are u using. I had the same prob of minimal screen size
>with Kubuntu and I have Dell Inspiron and i think the card I have is
>an i810. I had to google around a bit and found out that i had to
>manually change the xorg file to support my screen.
>Fedora Core 3 seems to have fixed this bug during the installer stage itself.
>
>FYI this is what i had to paste/replace to get my screen to the full
>1024x768 resolution
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>Section "Device"
> Identifier "Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset
>Integrated Graphics Device"
> Driver "i810"
> BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Generic Monitor"
> ModelName "Dell 1024x768 Laptop Display Panel"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
> VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0
> Option "DPMS"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "i810"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "Intel 845"
> VideoRam 10000
>EndSection
>
>Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset
>Integrated Graphics Device"
> Monitor "Generic Monitor"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
>EndSection
>
>Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
>EndSection
>
>Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
>EndSection
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>On 4/15/05, Simon Santoro <Simon.Santoro at poste.it> wrote:
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>>Peter Holm wrote:
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>>>Hi:
>>>I would like to know what I should do to change my screen resolution from
>>>640x480 to 1024x768, I am using a laptop and the screen is minimal for
>>>working with it.
>>>
>>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org does not work
>>>
>>>
>>what does not work? do you have an error? maybe you could post your
>>/var/log/Xorg.0.log file?
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Intel i810 chip. It's not happy with Hoary. I've got the same problem
with my Dell Dimension 2400.
Baza
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