G45 graphics chip resolutions - maximum 1280x1024, surely not!

[Chris G]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:02:49PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:21:23PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> >> I'm running 8.10 beta on an Asus P5Q-VM motherboard which has the
> >> Intel G45 graphics hardware.
> >> 
> >> When I run ddcprobe it reports the following for the graphics
> >> hardware:-
> >> 
> >>     vbe: VESA 3.0 detected.
> >>     oem: Intel(r)Eaglelake Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
> >>     vendor: Intel Corporation
> >>     product: Intel(r)Eaglelake Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
> >>     memory: 131008kb
> >>     mode: 1280x1024x256
> ...
> >>     mode: 640x480x64k
> >> 
> >> Surely the hardware can do better than that!   Is there anything I'm
> >> missing in getting it to tell me about higher resolutions?
> >> 
> > ... it's OK, I've got it to 1600x1200.  The Screen Resolution applet
> > is misleading, I tried changing the refresh rate and was offered a
> > whole lot more resolutions for a refresh rate that promptly
> > disappeared, but I got the extra resolutions!
> 
> fwiw, ddcprobe doesn't show all the possible settings.  I've never tried it
> before, so I ran it on my Intel 945 graphics and it doesn't show the
> 1280x800 I'm currently running (for which I needed to use 915resolution)

Yes, I don't really understand what ddcprobe is telling us, it doesn't
seem to relate to the real capabilities of the graphics card.

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Chris Green