Robert Rawlinson
I have a PC I put together which has a built in video card. The video card in hardware info is VGA compatible and id: 99405 and 65794 driver:i915. The only screen I am offered is 1024X768 @ 60Hz. I know it should be better as the old MB would use the highest settings. I would like to get this MB up to the max.
My system also have trouble finding higher resolutions with the i915 driver and kernel modeset- this seems to be a common problem. I ended up resorting to xrandr. You should: 1. Find out the native resolution of your monitor (I presume you are using an LCD). 2. Generate a modeline with gtf (included in the xorg-x11-server package). 3. Use xrandr to add and set the mode. To do this automatically, I ended up just putting the lines at the end of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.common. For example: ,---- | # Hack to set native resolution | /usr/bin/xrandr --newmode "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync | /usr/bin/xrandr --addmode VGA1 1680x1050_60.00 | /usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050_60.00 `---- Charles -- "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh)