Will Starck wrote:
Is there any hope for this laptop, or do I ebay it and buy another?
There is hope ;-)
Display settings:
Resolution: 1400 x 1050 24 bit Hardware: Monitor type LCD Panel 1400 x 1050 Video Card: S3 Savage4 (any of the Savage 4s seem to work best)
and xorg.conf:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "LCD Panel 1400x1050" HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0 VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0 Option "dpms" EndSection
I am on a HP zd7000 and xorg.conf needs a modeline in the monitor section otherwise 1440x900 does not work.
To get your modeline you need to run gtf as root. In your case:
# gtf 1400 1050 75
The result looks something like: [root@FC3 ~]# gtf 1440 900 75
# 1440x900 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 70.50 kHz; pclk: 136.49 MHz
Modeline "1440x900_75.00" 136.49 1440 1536 1688 1936 900 901 904 940 -HSync +Vsync
This is for my laptop, so don't copy and paste it. But copy and paste _your_ result into the monitor section of xorg.conf.
Here the example of xorg.conf on my laptop (again: do _not_ copy and paste _this):
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "LCD Panel 1440x900" HorizSync 31.5 - 100.0 VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0 Modeline "1440x900" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync Option "dpms" EndSection
For your notebook I found two references for modelines on Linux: http://homepages.which.net/~adrian.west/pavillion_subpages/thanasis_pavillion_xf86config.html http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/Jul/att-6868/hp-zt1180-XF86Config
And there is a website which can "make" your modeline as well: http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines
Hope that helps
-- Regards Markus Huber
