Feisty video settings on a macbook
Peter Gort
pgort at mac.com
Sat Apr 28 08:30:21 UTC 2007
Hi All,
I've just installed Ubuntu (latest cd download) onto a spare
partition on my Macbook. I was very impressed with the installation,
the cd booted, the installer asked a few questions, and it was all
done. Very impressive.
Unfortunately I have only 3 screen resolutions, 1024*768, 800*600,
640*480.
The macbook does not have a separate video processor chip, handling
everything on board. It does desktop effects beautifully.... at
1024*768. The native resolution of the dispay however, is 1280*800.
No problem I thought, and ran dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
(which is what is suggested at the start of the /etc/X11/Xorg.conf
file). It defaulted to the VESA driver, and the same three
resolutions I get in System Preferences Screen Resolution. np I
thought, and just added the 1280*800 option. Rebooting left me with
no graphical interface at all....
Warning: I'm a part time dabbler and know just enough to be really
dangerous in Ubuntu.... and I seem to recall that doing the above
worked in 6.06 or 5.04.
So, does anybody what driver I should have selected / how to
configure Feisty to work on a Macbook at native resolution of 1280*800?
Bonus question: I've got an Apple 23" cinema display, resolution
1920*1200, is it possibly to Feisty that the external monitor exists
and use it as well as the built in?
Peter Gort
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