You sent this which I modified. This should do. SEE NOTES AT BOTTOM!! On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:59, John A. Smith wrote: > I have an Averatec 5110H laptop with a 15" XGA TFT monitor and Intel(R) > 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller . The screen has a max resolution > of 1024x768 @ 16 million colors. > > With the default install of Fedora C1, I only get a resolution of > 640x480. However, I was able to get a 1024x768 resolution @ only 256 > colors after installing the intel dripkg*.rpm, running X -configure from > the command line, and replacing /etc/X11/XF86config with the new config > file. When I startx and try to change the preferences to 16 million > colors, it says I have to log out and restart X. When I do it goes back > to 640x480. I don't have a clue what I'm doing wrong. I had the same > problem trying Mandrake on this machine and was hoping the FC1 would > hold the answers to my problems. I've also tried installing the > 855patch*.rpm from http://projects.nudieman.com/500m/, but that didn't > make any difference. > > I know there must be others out there with the same problem. Has anyone > out there encountered this and won?? My XF86config file is below, maybe > someone can point out what I'm missing. > > TIA for any help! > > -j a s > > > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "XFree86 Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "vnc" > Load "dbe" > Load "dri" > Load "extmod" > Load "glx" > Load "record" > Load "xtrap" > Load "speedo" > Load "type1" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > ModelName "Monitor Model" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] > #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] > #Option "ColorKey" # <i> > #Option "CacheLines" # <i> > #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] > #Option "DRI" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>] > #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] > #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i> > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "i810" > VendorName "Intel Corp." > BoardName "852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Chipset Graphics Controller" > BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > SubSection "Display" Remove these sections > SubSection "Display" > Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" > EndSubSection > EndSection > The word is backup copy move XF86config to another file. I use XF86config.safe. If this works you may then want to play but be careful since some monitors will self destruct if the sync signals are out of range. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
