On 5/9/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/05/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:00 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I just noticed that my Dell Inspiron laptop, which bills it's screen > > as 1400x1050, actually has 1680x050 usable pixels. I edit xorg.conf to > > add that resolution, but KDE does not present me that option when I > > log in after killing X. I tried looking for the KDE configuration file > > to edit by hand, but I could not find it. Would this be unwise? How > > can I add 1680x1050 as a resolution option? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Dotan Cohen > That is interesting. How did you discover that a higher resolution was > actually being used? If you do a CTL-alt-F1 and log in as root. And then > run system-config-display you don't see the higher resolution as a > choice? It's running at the lower (1400x1050) resolution. There is a BIOS setting which stretches lower resolutions to fill the entire screen. Disabling that option makes the screen display pixel-pixel, but there are black bars. And now my fonts aren't fuzzy! I do see the higher resolution in system-config-display, and I set it, but the lappy does not use it. Checking in Gnome/KDE control panels (and by the black bars) I see that I'm still at 1400x1050. Dotan Cohen
Do you really believe Dell would give you a higher res display without informing you?
