FC6T3 Install on Acer Aspire 5601AWLMi laptop (long)

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Sep 18 18:17:04 UTC 2006


ron flory wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
>> ron flory wrote:
>>> 2. X only appears to be able to use 1024x768 resolution.  LCD is
>>>    1280x800 native.  No matter what I do with "system-configure-
>>>    display", I can't get it to run higher resolution.  This worked
>>>    correctly under FC6T2 once I told it the LCD capabilities.
>>
>> The default i810 video driver can only set modes to those listed in 
>> the video BIOS, and you bought a machine with a sufficiently broken 
>> BIOS to not list the native panel size.
> 
>  Thanks, that rattled my memory.
> 
>  Running the '915resolution' prog from
> http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/download.html in a rc. startup
> to hack a proper video bios mode line lets X choose the correct
> resolution.

Given that we are never, ever, going to ship 915resolution in Core, I 
would appreciate it if you'd test the 'intel' driver as well, since the 
next major release of the i810 driver is expected to be based on that 
branch.

- ajax




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