Re: [opensuse] Intel 965G and 1680 x 1050

roN wrote:
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
Ron,

Have a look at the 915resolution commands a little closer. I don't
recall a "ForceBios" option being involved at all. You will modify your
video bios as "root" from the command line and it will involve replacing
a video mode like '4c' with 915resolution. (i.e. # 915resolution 5c 1400
1050)

See:
http://absolutebeginner.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/absolute-beginner-guide-915resolution/

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