Re: FC7: 1680x1050 screen resolution on thinkpad T61 with Intel 965GM X3100 video chipset.

Pete Huckelba wrote:

Globe Trotter wrote:

----- Original Message ----
From: Pete Huckelba <redhat@xxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:56:13 AM

Subject: Re: FC7: 1680x1050 screen resolution on thinkpad T61 with Intel 965GM X3100 video chipset.

Globe Trotter wrote:

--- trendle <no-reply-gw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a similar problem with a 1680x1050 lcd monitor and fc7.
...snip...

Agreed! And I have the opensource intel.....which installed perfectly with

xubuntu. Wonder when it will work out of the box with fedora.....

btw, i filed a bug report: no one has assigned it yet, so this is really low

priority, looks like.

i filed it under 915resolution. anything else that would be more apt?

trotter

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
yum -y install 915resolution

Then add to the bottom of /etc/rc

/usr/sbin/915resolution 3a 1680 1050 24

and reboot.

Thanks for the above. I uninstalled 915resolution using yum, and then went through the steps above. To no avail. I was not able to get the higher 1680x1050 resolution....

Any further suggestions? Btw, I wonder why we need the livna repo. I did follow the above advice word for word, though.

Many thanks,
Trotter

My bad -915 is in extras, not livna; not to mention x3100 is their new video chipset, invalidating the 915 hack. Have you taken a look at http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html?

-Pete

The new F7 intel video driver from:
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.0.0-4.fc7

...xorg.conf...
Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Videocard0"
       Driver      "intel"
EndSection
...

Seems to handle the new X1300 in 2D mode just fine.
3D is still a no go. (locks the system)

Dell Inspiron 1420N has the same new intel mobile chip set.

see Justin's Blog here:

http://blog.justinconover.com/2007/08/16/1420-dell-inspiron-and-fedora-7/

Here is the meet of alsa fixes for the new intel mobile chipset:

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
# yum install mercurial
# cd /usr/src
# mkdir alsa && cd alsa
# hg clone http://hg-mirror.alsa-project.org/alsa-driver alsa-driver
# cd alsa-driver
# hg clone http://hg-mirror.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel alsa-kernel
# ./hgcompile && make install
# echo options snd-hda-intel model=3stack > /etc/modprobe.d/sound
# modprobe snd-hda-intel
# system-config-sound (test it)


# reboot (to make sure it sticks, or if the test before didn't work)

# yum install iwlwifi-firmware

The only known (to me) issue left with the new intel chipset is suspend.

Good luck!