On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Ricardo Franklin Mergarejo
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Ioannis Vranos:
>
>  > > Any info about the graphics card?
>
>  The graphic card is an Intel 82815 CGC (chipset graphics controller). In
>  Windows works fine with a configuration of 24 bit color and 1024x768 and
>  with others Linux versions, but with SL 5.0 recognize the graphic card
>  and the monitor, but the maximum resolution is 832x624... any idea about
>  the difference.
>

I have seen this problem with Intel cards.  Maybe this will give you
an idea.  If your xorg.conf does not give enough information about
memory, then X doesn't know how much memory there is, and so you get
the smaller resolultion.  On some Intel cards--I don't know about
yours--the memory is shared with the motherboard's main memory.  ON a
system like that , it is especially important to find out how to
declare how much memory you want to have for video.

I know this seems like detail crap that users should not have to mess
around with.  But it seems to be an everpresent fact of life.

pj

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