On Tuesday 13 April 2010 20:28:06 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 19:35:08 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 19:24:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > My new laptop has an Intel WXGA video card - and I have no more detail
> > than that.
lspci -v
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0046 (rev 12)
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0002
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 2058 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel modules: i915
> > dpms identifies it as an "LCD panel 1280x1024",
yet X
> > insists that 1024x768 is the best it can do. That produces horrible
> > distortions, so it's important to get this sorted.
> >
> > I tried commenting out the dpms option and adding a Modes line, but
> > still I'm stuck with the same display. Running xrandr in konsole
> > gives me
> >
> > Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
> > default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
> >
> > 1024x768 61.0*
> > 800x600 61.0
> > 640x480 60.0
> > 1024x600 0.0
> >
> > Before I tried to fix things I think I was seeing 1024 x 600, as the
> > 1024x768 does fill my screen, whereas the original display was taller
> > than the screen.
> >
> > Any ideas what might be causing the problem, and what I could do about
> > it?
>
> I should have added that it's currently using the vesa driver, as when I
> installed F12 I had no display whatsoever.
The vesa driver is the culprit, I doubt it can do any resolutions other
than those standard ones, as reported by xrandr.
I did wonder if that was so.
You need to find out the model of the graphics card, and use more
appropriate driver. Did you try the regular intel driver? What does
Xorg -configure
detect?
Hmm - hadn't tried that before - I tried setting it up with
system-configure-
display.
<snip>
Section "Module"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
EndSection
<snip>
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>:
"True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f>
Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
I haven't yet tried setting this as the xorg.conf, in case I need to do
something else to load the Intel driver.
Thanks for the help so far - I hope this is enough info to get things moving
;-)
Anne
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