Screen Resolution and Color Depth

[John A. Smith]

Thanks!! Works like a charm. I added the modes options you recommended 
and the horizsync and vertrefresh info suggested by chadley wilson. 
Monitor works great.

On another note, I also fixed my acpi settings. So now my fedora boot 
partition is finally the way I want it!

-j a s

jludwig wrote:

>You sent this which I modified. This should do. SEE NOTES AT BOTTOM!!
>On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:59, John A. Smith wrote:
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>>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"
>>    
>>
>Remove these sections
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>>    SubSection "Display"
>>        Depth     15
>>    
>>
>	  Modes    "1024x768"
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>>    EndSubSection
>>    SubSection "Display"
>>        Depth     16
>>    
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>	  Modes     "1024x768"
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>>    EndSubSection
>>    SubSection "Display"
>>        Depth     24
>>    
>>
>	  Modes      "1024x768"
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>>    EndSubSection
>>EndSection
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>>    
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>The word is backup copy move XF86config to another file.
>I use XF86config.safe. If this works you may then want to play but be
>careful since some monitors will self destruct if the sync signals are
>out of range.
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