Screen Resolution and Color Depth

[jludwig]

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

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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>