X won't give high-res with high colors

2003-09-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, Sorry that this post is a little scarce on details. I will fill them in when I have them again. I am installing Linux on my sister's laptop (a Dell centrino, don't have exact model). I went for RH9 because that's what would be fastest to install. It correctly detected almost

Re: X won't give high-res with high colors

2003-09-18 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, when X is set up for 16 or 32 bits/pixel, the highest resolution available seem to be 640x480. Looking at the X startup log, I can see that the system detects resolutions of up to 1280x1024, but discards them all as non-matching (I did not

Re: X won't give high-res with high colors

2003-09-18 Thread Oleg Kobets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: X won't give high-res with high colors Hi all, Sorry that this post is a little scarce on details. I will fill them in when I have them again. I am installing Linux on my sister's

Re: X won't give high-res with high colors

2003-09-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Subject: X won't give high-res with high colors Hi all, Sorry that this post is a little scarce on details. I will fill them in when I have them again. I am installing Linux on my sister's laptop (a Dell centrino, don't have exact model). I went for RH9 because that's what would

Re: X won't give high-res with high colors

2003-09-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, It pretty much seems to be incorrect H and V frequencies detected.check XF86Config with manuals. Also check modes in XF86Config. behdad On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, Sorry that this post is a little scarce on details. I will fill them in when I have them

Re: X won't give high-res with high colors

2003-09-18 Thread Boaz Rymland
I don't know if this could help but if you are in a need for some non-standard modelines for X, trying to bypass some limitations, the following might help calculating such modelines: http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html http://zaph.com/Modeline/