roN wrote:
> On Sunday 09 September 2007 10:31:16 am David C. Rankin wrote:
>> roN wrote:
>>> On Sunday 09 September 2007 07:41:06 am Kenneth Schneider wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 10:27 -0400, BandiPat wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday 09 September 2007, roN wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone gotten a resolution of 1680 x 1050 out of an intel 965G
>>>>>> chipset? I'm looking for that, out of the box, my opensuse 10.2 only
>>>>>> offers 1280 x 1024 which looks somehow wrong...I would appreciate if
>>>>>> some one could help me in a way getting my x-server to display 1680 x
>>>>>> 1050 pixel on my screen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>> --
>> <snip)
>>
>>> Don't know how to add a line for 1680x1050. It looks like sync rates to
>>> me.... i guess i need to find a manual for my screen acer AL2216W. Right?
>>> For what should i look in there?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>> Wait *Stop* *Read* http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/
>>
>> I have been through this in great detail and with great pain with
>> opensuse 10.0. (see
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2007-April/023179.html)
>>
>> You are *very* luck to be running 10.2 because the 10.2 kernel will
>> support 1680x1050 resolution natively and you will be spared the
>> learning experience of having to build X, Mesa, and Dri/Drm from source.
>> (see http://intellinuxgraphics.org/)
>>
>> The bottom line for you is a 3 step process(qualified with an "I'm
>> pretty sure" speaking only from 10.0 experience):
>>
>> (1) you will need to download or install from Yast the 915resolution tool;
>>
>> (2) you will follow the instructions to patch a video mode in your video
>> card for 1680x1050 resolution; and
>>
>> (3) you will make the xorg.conf changes required and then restart X.
>>
>> Your 10.2 install and kernel should then provide 1680x1050 resolution
>> without having to hack and compile anything else. The steps 1,2 and 3
>> above will require you to manually patch your video card BIOS and
>> manually edit several config files. Yast will not be involved int he
>> process.
>>
>> Good luck, it will work for you and, if my process doesn't on first try,
>> then the links provided will give you the required information to get
>> the job done.
>
> Okay, David,
>
> Thanks alot for this but i stumble over the first stones already :o
> (1) Okay, I've installed 915resolution tool with Yast (actually it already
> has
> been installed)
> (2) I try to patch my xorg with instructions posted on
> http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/. it
> says "Option "ForceBIOS" "1024x768=1400x1050"
> This will re-program the old 1024x768 to become a new 1400x1050 one."
> but I can't find a section "driver" where i'm supposed to place this option.
> So I just crearted it myself on the bottom i wrote:
> Section "driver"
> ForceBIOS "1024x768=1400x1050"
> EndSection
> (3) I excitedly restarted X and it said:
> waitting for X server to shut down Free Font Path:
> FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; finxing.
> - so i made a "startx" and i was told:
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X
> Server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> - okay no way i can start it like this so i launched "sax2" and i got a
> bunch
> of error messages after i saved a working configuration and sax closed:
> Parse error on line 207 of secton driver in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> "driver" is not a valid section name.
> Problem when parsing config file.
> Isax could not import file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf at /usr/sbin/isax line 171.
>
> So i'm stuck here and i don't know further can you (or anybody else) may help
> me? It would be appreciated!
>
> Thank you!
> Ron
Ron,
Have a look at the 915resolution commands a little closer. I don't
recall a "ForceBios" option being involved at all. You will modify your
video bios as "root" from the command line and it will involve replacing
a video mode like '4c' with 915resolution. (i.e. # 915resolution 5c 1400
1050)
See:
http://absolutebeginner.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/absolute-beginner-guide-915resolution/
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