No 1680x1050 for external monitor

[Colin Law]

On 2 June 2012 05:12, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 06:05 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> I just installed Kubuntu 12.04 on a neighbour's laptop computer with
>> Intel graphics. He uses the computer with an external monitor attached
>> as the laptop's builtin monitor is faulty and useless. Both the laptop
>> internal monitor and the external monitor are of the same resolution:
>> 1680x1050.
>>
>> When configuring the resolutions with the KDE graphical tool, there is
>> an option for 1680x1050 for the laptop monitor, but for the external
>> monitor the options only go up to about 1200x768. When connecting this
>> monitor to my desktop to test (Kubuntu 11.10) the desktop sends it
>> 1680x1050 with no problems. So why won't the Kubuntu 12.04 laptop send
>> it that resolution? How can I fix this?
>
>
> With nvidia, you use the included tool that configures the driver, not the
> desktop app. The desktop app can only do with the driver allows it to do
> (kinda like alsa and pulse) so maybe you can edit the driver through
> whatever tool Intel provides for it's chipset, which would include detection
> of display devices so it can be written out to /etc/X11/xorg.conf ...if
> stock won't do.
>
> I just did a google and I'm not finding anything on an intel chipset tool
> for Ubuntu. Maybe someone can provide a link to one?? Ric

Normally the built in stuff works for intel graphics

Colin