wide screen laptop problem

[David Donnelly]

On Thu, 2005-31-03 at 20:54 +0100, Jon Hill wrote:
> > It seems you have bad adapter configured (VESA) instead of real
> > thing... so your defaul driver may not know about the mode you are
> > using. Do you have Intel integrated graphics? If so try the following:
> 
> Yes, this does seem like it would be a problem. My graphics chipset is 
> Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS,910GML.
> Maybe this is not yet supported under Fedora?
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Jon 

While I am by no means as good at linux configuration as some on this
list, I do have a laptop, Compaq R3000, running a 1280 x 800 display. I
too had to add the modeline but I also added a section called "modes" to
specify the 16:10 format. I noticed it was omitted from your xorg.conf
so I thought it might be worth a try for you. My laptop has an Nvidia
chipset so you can ignore anything related to it as it won't apply to
your setup.

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name
of the 
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#	Option	"Xleds"		"1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#	Option	"XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
# or:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
#	Option	"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:nocaps"
#
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
	Identifier     "16:10"
	ModeLine     "1280x800" 83.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1280x800"
	UseModes     "16:10"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 90.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "UseEdidFreqs" "1"
	Option	    "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = native"
	Option	    "dpms"
	Option	    "NoLogo" "1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
	Option	    "NvAgp" "3"
	Option	    "UseEdidFreqs" "1"
	Option	    "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = native"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1280x800" "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x800" "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection

David