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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