Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:34:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:31:16PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:32:40AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> >>>> I'm trying to configure a monitor my wife purchased for her machine >>>> >>>> It is a flat panel lcd with a native mode of >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, I've run up against problem similar to >>>> [0] in xorg with the i810 driver (she's running etch). I have hacked her >>>> xorg.conf to death using different modelines (from various sources, >>>> including the EDID information from the monitor itself) with no >>>> results. I have also played with 915resolution [1] to patch up the >>>> vBIOS to support the required resolution, but unfortunately, I can't >>>> get any of the modes to provide the right clock rate (with or without >> I've been through a whole host of other attempts and I'm pretty sure >> that I've exhausted the possibilities. I'm now migrating the wife up >> to sid... heh heh. The more I've researched it, the more it appears >> that the problem is solved in sid. I'll report back. > so I've moved her up to sid (a *totally* painless process BTW) and I > can now get better resolution choices for this monitor, but no luck at > the native 1440x900. It will do the resolution and the monitor (which > will shutdown on bad inputs) reports [EMAIL PROTECTED] in its little > OSD. But the placement and size are bad and there appears to be no > fix. Regardless we've now got 1280X768 and it looks gorgeous, so she' > s happy. I am trying to do the same, but the intel driver in the xserver-xorg-video-intel package has not helped. I have also tried a modeline suggested by a friend, and it is ignored by X as apparently the hsync is out of range. I have also tried 915resolution, but it says it doesnt work for my chipset. lspci says i have
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) Does anyone have any advice on what to try to get this card to do [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I am running lenny, and the intel driver is the same version there as unstable, so I doubt moving to unstable will help me... Xorg says the following when starting up . (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1440x900" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1024" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range) . . (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output TMDS-1 (II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x800"x60.0 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 (49.7 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x768"x60.0 80.14 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 795 (47.7 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz) (II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected (II) intel(0): Output TMDS-1 connected (II) intel(0): Output TMDS-1 using initial mode 1280x768 I can't get it to even try the res I want as it thinks its out of range. I don't know if using DVI changes anything... Anton -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://tastycake.net/~anton/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF
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