Thanks Pete, It's not there on tuxmobil, but once i get everything working (i'm yet to look at sound, but i have gotten the wireless working with WPA-PKS), I'll make sure to add it.
The blog entry on the 6400 may come in handy as well. On 4/24/06, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey hey. > > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:51 +1000, Menno Schaaf wrote: > > I helped a friend install Ubuntu (5.10) on her laptop this weekend, > > but couldn't get X to display in the native resolution (1280x800). > > It's using the i810 driver, and defaults back to 1024x768. > > > > The X output shows that it detects the panel and the correct > > resolution of it, but for all my coaxing doesn't want to display it! > > The Intel chipsets seem to have trouble displaying extended resolutions > without some help. I've never actually needed to, but apparently you > need to run utilities that modify the BIOS to enable these modes, before > X starts. There was a blog entry on http://planet.linux.org.au/ recently > describing how somebody did this on a slightly different chipset; have a > look at http://klepas.org/2006/04/09/ubuntu-on-the-inspiron-6400/ as a > starter. > > You might also want to have a look for your model laptop at > http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html - there's a fairly good chance > somebody else has already solved your problem. > > Good luck! :-) > -- > Pete > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Menno Schaaf aka ginji irc.austnet.org #gentoo #linux-help -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
