FC7: 1680x1050 screen resolution on thinkpad T61 with Intel 965GM X3100 video chipset.

[Globe Trotter]

----- Original Message ----
From: Pete Huckelba <redhat at stata.com>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:56:13 AM
Subject: Re: FC7: 1680x1050 screen resolution on thinkpad T61 with Intel 965GM X3100 video chipset.

Globe Trotter wrote:
> --- trendle <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org> wrote:
> 
>> I have a similar problem with a 1680x1050 lcd monitor and fc7.
>>
>> I can set the physical screen to the correct size, but cannot see any
>> solution for the display size.
>>
>> However, fwiw... I tried a spare disk and installed the most recent mandriva
>> (spring 2007).  It recognised and setup the screen correctly.
>>
>> So there is no hardware problem for me, and it seems there is no fundamental
>> linux issue. Just fedora fc7.
>>
>> Its a shame to blight a good distro by giving non expert users such grief
>> setting up a simple thing as the display.
> 
> Agreed! And I have the opensource intel.....which installed perfectly with
> xubuntu. Wonder when it will work out of the box with fedora.....
> 
> btw, i filed a bug report: no one has assigned it yet, so this is really low
> priority, looks like.
> 
> i filed it under 915resolution. anything else that would be more apt?
> 
> trotter


rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
yum -y install 915resolution

Then add to the bottom of /etc/rc

/usr/sbin/915resolution 3a 1680 1050 24

and reboot.




Thanks for the above. I uninstalled 915resolution using yum, and then went through the steps above. To no avail. I was not able to get the higher 1680x1050 resolution....

Any further suggestions? Btw, I wonder why we need the livna repo. I did follow the above advice word for word, though.

Many thanks,
Trotter





       
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