Gateway 400VTX display resolution

From: John (cybrocop_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/06/04 

Date: 6 Jan 2004 01:51:32 -0800

Dear Sirs,

I have a Gateway 400VTX Laptop with Redhat Linux 9.0

I cannot get the display to show anything greater than 800x600.
I've seen some previous posts complaining about the same problem,
but no answers yet.

The Gnome, "Display Settings" program has the following settings:

Display:

     Resolution: 1024x768
     Colors: Millions of colors

Advanced:

     Monitor Type: Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768
     Video Card Type: Intel 852
     Video Card Memory Size: 16 MB
     Video Card Driver: i810

     (The Video Card stuff is auto-probed.)

With these setting, X comes up in 800x600 resolution.

Here are the relevant portions of my config file:

=========================================================================
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Monitor0"
        VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
        DisplaySize 305 229
        HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
        VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
        Option "dpms"
EndSection
 
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Videocard0"
        Driver "i810"
        VendorName "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName "Intel 852"
EndSection
 
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device "Videocard0"
        Monitor "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 24
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

=========================================================================

# dmesg|grep -i i810
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xe8000000 128MB
i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0x1880 and 0x1c00, MEM 0xe0100c00 and
0xe0100800, IRQ 10
i810: Intel ICH4 mmio at 0xd012ac00 and 0xd071f800

=========================================================================

Thanks in advance for the help. I'll post a following with my XFree86
log file.

John

P.S. (off topic) If anyone knows how to make ACPI work on this laptop,
so that
the fan is not on all the time, please also let me know.

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