Feisty video settings on a macbook

[Peter Gort]

Thanks Bob Cortez for that wonderful search page at

http://alaskanbest.com/ubuntusearch.htm

It enabled me to find the fix at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook

specifically the 915resolution fix.

On 28/04/2007, at 6:30 PM, Peter Gort wrote:

> 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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