Using 1280x800 WXGA resolution on notebook

[Chris Kloiber]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 03:45, slukshides at comcast.net wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have an eMachines M2105 notebook that has a 1280x800 WXGA display driven by an Intel 82852/82855 GM chip.  The Fedora installer, even test 3 of FC2, does not offer this resolution setting at install time.  Instead the display is run at 1024x768 with the hardware, I suppose, stretching the image to fill the screen.  Several suggestions I came across for using this resolution on other notebooks failed to work with the eMachines M2105.  Of course, eMachines was of absolutely no help.  The latest Knoppix also would not drive the screen at this resolution.
> 
> Does anyone else on this list have this machine?  Have you had success getting either the WXGA display resolution or the sound to work?
> 
> Also, is anyone aware if FC2 final will suppot WXGA?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve

The eMachines M6807 has that screen, and it works fine with FC2. I use
*NO* Horizontal or Vertical refresh rates in my xorg.conf, and simply
add the 1280x800 resolution by hand to the Modes line of the Display
section, as the gui tools don't understand non 4:3  resolutions. X will
then "do the right thing", and it looks nice.

(snip)
Section "Monitor"
 ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "LCD Panel 1280x800"
 ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
#       HorizSync    31.5 - 67.0
#       VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

(snip)
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

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Chris Kloiber