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 --
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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 -- chEErs Ron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org