Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Em Terça 04 Julho 2006 23:41, Craig White escreveu:
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 11:37 +0900, Naoki wrote:
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 08:09 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:17 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
Naoki wrote:
Howdy all,
Anybody managed to get 1680x1050 as an available resolution in
'gnome-display-properties' ?
I'm running an intel 945G graphics chip and all I get is 1600x1200
with no widescreen options.
If anybody knows the magic xorg.conf hack I'd be very happy to hear
it.
Cheers.
Good luck. I've tired bios hacks, alternate drivers, and dozens of
configs with the same monitor and chip set. I think it's impossible.
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what do you have in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (screen section ?)
Right now :
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Then I gather the other reply about mode not supported by BIOS is
probably appropriate - perhaps you only need to give it more RAM
(presuming on board video from on board RAM) or BIOS upgrade or it's
possible that the onboard video will never support that mode.
That software I mentioned, 915resolution, can replace an unused BIOS video
mode by the one he wants in RAM, for Intel 915 and 945 chipsets. Of course,
it needs to be executed everytime the machine is booted. It would be
appropriate to do it in rc.local.
[]'s
Marcelo
Grab:
ftp://ftp.redfish-solutions.com/pub/915resolution-0.5.2-2.i386.rpm
(or conversely, grab the .src rpm if you want).
This repackaging will create entries in /etc/sysconfig and /etc/rc.d/init.d/
to integrate a little better on RH/FC than the version you get from the
author.
Oh, and I've found that Dell makes LCD monitors that frequently have
slightly incorrect DDC parameters. To use a 2005FWP over VGA, for
instance, I had to use:
ModeLine "1680x1050 (Dell')" 146.2 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1091
and not the:
ModeLine "1680x1050 (Dell)" 146.2 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089
that the DDC reported (or else the top 3 scan lines would be off-screen).
I've had similar issues with a Dell 2405FPW.
-Philip
