Guest KShots Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Just installed 10.0 on my laptop along with the nvidia drivers (not a problem, the drivers are pretty easy and self-explanatory now)... but the highest resolution I can get is 1024x768. On Windoze XP, I get 14x0 x 900 (x because I can't remember if it's 1440 or 1400), and I see on the forums people have 1400x1050. I tried that and all I get is the upper-left portion of the desktop. Any chance I can get the better res and be able to display the whole screen? This is a 17" wide screen on an HP Pavilion zd7001us (if that means anything to anyone). I suppose that I can probably live with that... but why should I settle for a low res? B) Unlike the hundreds of topics I browsed for a short time earlier, I can start X with no problem - I just can't get a wide screen res. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Try to find out the real resolution, instead of 14x0 x 900. Then, modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to include that resolution. Now, when you start X it may not work, but check the file /var/log/XFree86.0.log because it holds the clue as to why the resolution doesn't get used. Then you can create a modeline with the desired resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KShots Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Try to find out the real resolution, instead of 14x0 x 900.Then, modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to include that resolution. Now, when you start X it may not work, but check the file /var/log/XFree86.0.log because it holds the clue as to why the resolution doesn't get used. Then you can create a modeline with the desired resolution. OK, it's 1440x900. I looked at the config file, and it looks like what I'd want to modify is the "modeline" statement... but there's a whole slew of odd numbers that I can't make heads or tails of in there. What do they all mean, and if I only know the resolution and that it works at 61 Hz vertical refresh, how would I figure out the rest? Or is that just hopeless? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJ Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 Try putting this in your monitor section.... Modeline "1440x900" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KShots Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 I found this page gave an exact description on what to do (HJ, you were right on with that modeline statement, thanks!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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