Re: Screen Resolution and Color Depth

["John A. Smith" <jnasmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>