I will keep that into consideration(frying the HW).  Thanks for helping~
-Kevin


>From: Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: setting the screen resolution
>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:47:02 +0100 (CET)
>
>On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, John Franks wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:01 -0500, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>>>Kevin Byun wrote:
>>>>I am having a trouble with the screen resolution with my laptop on
>>>>Linux.  The setting on my laptop is currently 800 X 600 from the
>>>>installation of linux.  However, I need to have the resolution setting
>>>>to be 1280 X 768.  The setting on "Resolution" application doesn't
>>>>show the selection of 1280 X 768.
>>>>I don't have the file Xorg in /etc/X11 directory and I am lost.  Could
>>>>you experts show me the ways to fixing this problem?
>>
>>
>>>If you're tentative about tweaking configuration files, try running the
>>>display configuration application (as root) again. One of the tabs on
>>>the top (I am just guessing, I haven't seen it in a while) is hardware
>>>settings. Just choose your monitor type as 'Generic LCD 1280x768',
>>>restart X and you should have that option the next time you run the
>>>resolution chooser.
>>
>>
>>The paragraph above is the key advice.  However, 1280x768 is not a
>>correct aspect ratio, so it will not be a choice.  Did you mean
>>1024x768? or 1280xsomething_else?
>
>It is the native resolution of some notebooks, like the Dell X1. In 
>addition, the VESA BIOS of this device has no such mode.
>
>My solution for this was to find the "915resolution" utility, and
>insert something like
>
>	/usr/local/sbin/915resolution 4d 1280 768 16
>
>into /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, right before the line
>RHGB_STARTED=0 .
>
>Of course this won't help if the graphics chip isn't from intel.
>And even then, don't blame me if it fries your hardware.
>
>Hope this helps,
>	Stephan
>
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