SUMMARY: I can't get widescreen resolution to work with intel Q965 as I seem to not have a intel driver that supports it. I find updates via int el and pbone: xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-10.fc6.src.rpm. I notice there seems to be a FC7 version. Will the fc6 driver possibly freshen up older i810 dri ver so it supports wide screen resolution? Do I keep xorg.conf driver at "i8 10" or switch to "intel". I had to use 855resolution to try out widescreen (overwrite bios mode) to even try out wide screen on lcd with native resolution of 1680x1050 and it scrunched up. If i rpm -Fvh and then rebo ot and change xorg.con to 1680x1050 res, will that work?
DETAILS: I've installed SL5 on a HP dc7700 desktop. Graphics chipset is Q965/Q963. lspci -v: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrat ed Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) ... Neither linux nor winXP intel drivers support widescreen resolution as it does not show up as a mode on either one. I figured this out after overwriting a low-res video bios mode to 1680x1050 using 855resolution. This allowed use of a generic LCD monitor (1680x1050) at that resolution but it only used 80-90% of screen on a 1680x1050 native resolution lcd monito r. A 1600x1200 resolution uses up 100% of the 1680x1050 LCD as that is what the graphics driver sends out. So, I figure it's the driver as even the winX P driver has to be updated (booting into winXP provides 1600x1200 but not w ide screen modes!!!). The monitor (V7 brand) was not recognized and SL5 gave me junk, so I took a knoppix derived xorg.conf file tweaked to generic lcd monitor and eventua lly ended up at 1600x1200 and the 1680x1050 resolutions. Knoppix has the section "Device" driver as an "i810". I see that intel now has s xorg 2d linux driver. http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html xf86-video-intel and when I search on pbone for this (http://rpm.pbone.net/) (nothing thru sl5 repositories or dag or atprms), I find: xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-10.fc6.src.rpm which I can do a rpmbuild on and then "freshen" via rpm -Fvh from the old er version in SL5. I'm at home now, so I can't try this out, so I figured I should ask this august group if in fact I have the right driver for the Q965 graphics chi p or do I need to try out the FC7 version? If I reboot with updated i810 rpm package, will the proper mode now show up? Or am I way off the mark? Do I need to change the driver from "i810" to " intel"? I've gotten this far by trial and error, so sage advice or even not so s age advice is welcome. Bill Lutter
