external display not working well

[Asif Iqbal]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a hp 6730b laptop running  ubuntu 9.04 and have an external monitor
> hp LE2201w 22"
>
> I am suppose to get a max of 2560 x 1600 resolution according to the spec.
>
> I am getting only  1280 x 1024
>
> # sudo lspci -v for the display and vga shows this
>
>  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
> Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dd
>     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2297
>     Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>     Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>     I/O ports at 6120 [size=8]
>     Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0
> Enable+
>     Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
>
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dd
>     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
>     Memory at d0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>     Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
>
>
> Anyone can suggest a fix / workaround ?
>
>
I ran the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and now I get 1680 x 1050. Still lot
less than 2560 x 1600.

Here is my Xorg.0.log -> http://pastebin.com/f43b763d7



> Thanks
>
>
>
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Asif Iqbal
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