Video Bios Hack (915resolution) Samsung X20 XVM 1730 V
Hi all, I hope that this is the right list for my purpose, if it?s not, it would be very kind if you could give me a hint which list my topic could belong to. System: Notebook: Samsung X20 XVM 1730 V max. screen resolution 1400 x 1050 graphic ?card?: intel 915 chipset Operating Systems: Suse Linux 10.0 Professional Windows XP Home Problem description: Not possible to run 1400 x 1050 resolution using Suse Linux (but working very well in WinXP). Maximum possible resolution using Suse 10.0: 1280 x 1024 Most likely method of resolution: A tool called 915Resolution to perform an Intel Video BIOS Hack. A HOWTO can be found at http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/ for Samsung X20 it can be found here http://www.nothingisreal.com/samsung_x20 (very similar laptop to mine, but not exactly the same). Up to now attempts: I already downloaded and installed the 915resolution tool and pasted the line ?915resolution 5c 1400 1050? to /etc/init.d/boot.local (as the second link suggests for automated calling the tool on startup). Till this point everything seems to be okay because after rebooting and testing the automation of setting the configuration parameters in line 5c (of 915resolution) via typing ?915resolution ?l? it returns 1400 x 1050 which is right for my display. The xorg.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf was also already modified like described in the second link by myself. Problem: The problem I?m facing at the moment is that whether I got something wrong with my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file changes or I missed something in the whole HOWTO because if I follow the instructions ?resolution ?l? outputs 1400 x 1050 but the actual resolution of the screen it still 1280 x 1024. If I try to change something in the xorg.conf file then sometimes the Xserver cannot be started up at all or it starts up with the 1280 x 1024 resolution. Question: Does someone have a detailed HOWTO for E X A C T L Y my laptop series (Samsung X20 XVM 1730 V)? Or did someone already solve the problem on a Samsung X20 and could send me his xorg.conf file ? not matter which Samsung X20 it is exactly that the file comes from as long as it runs with the same intel chipset I think. I would for sure try all files I?d receive as well as any other suggestions to solve the problem, because I am really sick of this 1280 x 1024 resolution compared to the one I achieve in WinXP at the moment? You?d really help me a lot!! Thanks to all who read this long mail and sorry for any circumstances. With best regards Thomas
Am Sonntag, 30. April 2006 19:04 schrieb Thomas.Rammer@i-med.ac.at:
Hi all,
I hope that this is the right list for my purpose, if it?s not, it would be very kind if you could give me a hint which list my topic could belong to.
System: Notebook: Samsung X20 XVM 1730 V max. screen resolution 1400 x 1050 graphic ?card?: intel 915 chipset
Operating Systems: Suse Linux 10.0 Professional Windows XP Home
Problem description: Not possible to run 1400 x 1050 resolution using Suse Linux (but working very well in WinXP). Maximum possible resolution using Suse 10.0: 1280 x 1024 [...] Problem: The problem I?m facing at the moment is that whether I got something wrong with my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file changes or I missed something in the whole HOWTO because if I follow the instructions ?resolution ?l? outputs 1400 x 1050 but the actual resolution of the screen it still 1280 x 1024. If I try to change something in the xorg.conf file then sometimes the Xserver cannot be started up at all or it starts up with the 1280 x 1024 resolution.
Hello Thomas, i suggest you to edit xorg.conf by hand. I do this when my monitors won't do what I want. First i run sax2 to wite the config file and then refine the conf by hand. Have you tried calculating the Modelines with xmode? For example 'xmode -x 1400 -y 1050 -r 70' (your screen res @ 70Hz) brings up: 74 68 Modeline "1400x1050" 140.79 1400 1496 1648 1896 1050 1051 1054 1092 'man xmode' will tell you more. You have to (calculate and) paste it in the appropriate section of xorg.conf. Deactivate the original by commenting them out. Check if the monitor section got the right display size, HorizSync and VertRefresh values. HTH, regards Rolf-Dieter Damm -- P4i845GV R5, GF FX5200 Personal Cinema, SAMSUNG SP1213N, SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616E F504, BENQ DVD DD DW1620 B7N9, FRITZ ISDN Card PCI 2.01, PHILIPS 109E5, SAMSUNG SymcMaster 913N ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de
Hi all,
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Problem: The problem I?m facing at the moment is that whether I got something wrong with my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file changes or I missed something in the whole HOWTO because if I follow the instructions ?resolution ?l? outputs 1400 x 1050 but the actual resolution of the screen it still 1280 x 1024. If I try to change something in the xorg.conf file then sometimes the Xserver cannot be started up at all or it starts up with the 1280 x 1024 resolution.
Question: Does someone have a detailed HOWTO for E X A C T L Y my laptop series (Samsung X20 XVM 1730 V)? Or did someone already solve the problem on a Samsung X20 and could send me his xorg.conf file ? not matter which Samsung X20 it is exactly that the file comes from as long as it runs with the same intel chipset I think. I would for sure try all files I?d receive as well as any other suggestions to solve the problem, because I am really sick of this 1280 x 1024 resolution compared to the one I achieve in WinXP at the moment?
You?d really help me a lot!! Thanks to all who read this long mail and sorry for any circumstances.
With best regards Thomas
Follow this thread: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Feb/1597.html Works perfectly for my Acer TM6003
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