Screen Resolution and Color Depth
jludwig
wralphie at comcast.net
Thu Apr 8 11:44:41 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:59, John A. Smith wrote:
> I have an Averatec 5110H laptop with a 15" XGA TFT monitor and Intel(R)
> 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller . The screen has a max resolution
> of 1024x768 @ 16 million colors.
>
> With the default install of Fedora C1, I only get a resolution of
> 640x480. However, I was able to get a 1024x768 resolution @ only 256
> colors after installing the intel dripkg*.rpm, running X -configure from
> the command line, and replacing /etc/X11/XF86config with the new config
> file. When I startx and try to change the preferences to 16 million
> colors, it says I have to log out and restart X. When I do it goes back
> to 640x480. I don't have a clue what I'm doing wrong. I had the same
> problem trying Mandrake on this machine and was hoping the FC1 would
> hold the answers to my problems. I've also tried installing the
> 855patch*.rpm from http://projects.nudieman.com/500m/, but that didn't
> make any difference.
>
> I know there must be others out there with the same problem. Has anyone
> out there encountered this and won?? My XF86config file is below, maybe
> someone can point out what I'm missing.
>
> TIA for any help!
>
> -j a s
>
>
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "vnc"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "glx"
> Load "record"
> Load "xtrap"
> Load "speedo"
> Load "type1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "keyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> ### Available Driver options are:-
> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> ### [arg]: arg optional
> #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
> #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
> #Option "ColorKey" # <i>
> #Option "CacheLines" # <i>
> #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
> #Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
> #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
> #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
> #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "i810"
> VendorName "Intel Corp."
> BoardName "852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Chipset Graphics Controller"
> BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 1
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 4
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 15
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
This is from my system screen0 of a duel headed system.
Note that I spell out the modes. If you do this X will choose the first
usable resolution in the list.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
--
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
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