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 > > >-- > > ---------------------------------------------------- >| Stephan Wiesand | | >| | | >| DESY - DV - | phone +49 33762 7 7370 | >| Platanenallee 6 | fax +49 33762 7 7216 | >| 15738 Zeuthen | | >| Germany | | > ----------------------------------------------------