FC5 & Dell 2007FPW - Anybody got widescreen? - Almost solved..

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Hi,

Em Quarta 05 Julho 2006 00:29, Naoki escreveu:
> Ok, so I did the little bios hack then generated the modeline from the
> logs as instructed in this very handy page :
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Widescreen_Resolutions_(WSXGA)
>
> My logs for the 2007WFP showed :
>
> (II) I810(0): clock: 146.2 MHz   Image Size:  434 x 270 mm
> (II) I810(0): h_active: 1680  h_sync: 1784  h_sync_end 1960 h_blank_end
> 2240 h_border: 0
> (II) I810(0): v_active: 1050  v_sync: 1053  v_sync_end 1059 v_blanking:
> 1089 v_border: 0
>
> And so my resulting modeline is :
> ModeLine     "1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089
>
> Now I have _almost_ the right result, it looks ok, width is find, but
> the bottom gnome panel is missing from the screen and the fonts look
> like it's not running in native resolution..

This monitor is an LCD one, right? Did you configure X to use sub-pixel font 
rendering? Text doesn't look nice in LCD monitors without this. Anyway, 
according to your next paragraph, you may really not be using the native 
resolution of the monitor.

> Funny thing is the monitor display menu says the resolution is 1280x1024
> @ 64 but there is no panning around the screen and both gnome and X
> report 1680x1050..

I think you should trust the information provided by your monitor :) Did you 
try to set the resolution using "Modes" in the Screen section of xorg.conf, 
instead of using "ModeLine"? Also, FYI, I have a notebook which uses intel 
945GM, but so far I have not been able to make it work using xorg i810 
driver, for xorg >= 6.9. It worked well in FC4 with xorg 6.8, but I can only 
use it with the VESA driver in FC5. Maybe you're experiencing a driver 
problem.

> Might just go buy a real video card as this damn integrated intel didn't
> come with DVI, anybody know why on earth some computers still ship with
> either Analog or floppy disks?

You'll certainly get better results with DVI.

[]'s
Marcelo