My Dell (an old insprion 8600) runs 1920x1200. A nice surprise on Ubuntu 7.04 and later was that it Just Worked. I didn't have to tweak the /etc/X11 configs at all!
Same with my old Sony Vaio PCG-8C3L aka PCG-GRX560. 1600x1200. That is, until the display started to go (these days is is crisp in text mode but goes nasty left-right flickery. Anyhow, yes, I've been able to get video out through the VGA connector at whatever resolution the monitor would support (never tried past WUXGA) over the years Too bad you think the 15.4 display is too tiny- I used 1600x1200 15.4" for quite a few years as my primary display because it beat the pants off the dual 1600x1200 21" tube displays my employer provided. Personally, my pet peeve is vendors who keep increasing the size of screens without increasing the number of pixels. Six years later, I'm still using my 2002 Dell because I can't find another laptop with a better than WUXGA display. Tony On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 / 6400 with the ATI X1400 video card and > a 1680x1050 15.4" monitor. I am considering purchasing an LCD monitor > for use at home, as the 15.4" screen is too tiny. > > How can I know what maximum resolution the VGA output is capable of? > > For that matter, how do I enable it? I have been unsuccessful in > getting VGA video out of this machine in Debian-based (Debian and > Ubuntu) distros. Fedora enabled at least 1024x768 output, but I did > not try anything higher. I do not remember which driver I was using > with Fedora. With Debian I tried only the open source driver that > comes on the install disk, and in Ubuntu I tried both the open source > and proprietary drivers to no avail. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü > -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch. This is unedited. P-)