Re: [PLUG] it's X11 time

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:33:31PM -0400, jeff wrote:
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> I was so happy about WPA working that I nearly overlooked the
> display.  I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop with 1280x800
> resolution in Windows.  Feisty detected 1024x768 and won't budge.
> Things look weird.
> 
> Feisty detected the 945(i810?) chipset and a generic monitor, but
> had H+V values filled in.
> 
> I've tried dpkg-reconfigure, messing with config files, I've looked
> for any specs on the display itself (Dell's website is borderline
> useless on a good day, per their own employees), and no amount of
> jiggering will convince the display to go up a notch.  Online
> searches kept referring me back to dpkg-reconfigure.

Did you try editing the xorg.conf file by hand to put in the values
that you want?  What if you provide *only* those values so X can't get
distracted by other values?  (Check out the resolution lines in my
post from 19:00 today as an example.  With the commented-out line I
don't get 1920x1200.  Swapping which line is commented out I do.)

HTH.

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 Jeff

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