Re: Screen Resolution and Color Depth

Thanks!! Works like a charm. I added the modes options you recommended and the horizsync and vertrefresh info suggested by chadley wilson. Monitor works great.

On another note, I also fixed my acpi settings. So now my fedora boot partition is finally the way I want it!

-j a s

jludwig wrote:

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.