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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