FC5 display problem

[QatQat]

Hi there,

my limits when it comes to Xwindows are showing clearly.

I need to get a HP LCD wide screed (L2045W) with an intel D945GTP board working with FC5 at 1680x1050. Chipset seems to be i945.

for some strange reason the onboard video card does not work at the screen native resolution (1680x1050) but only at 1024x768. I tried this system with a iiyama 19" monitor and got it to work at 1600x1200 and 1024x768. Nothing intermediate. When trying 1280, 1400 etc on the iiyama monitor, it defaults back to 1024x768.

With the HP LCD it is even worse, it will only work at 1024 and no other resolution.
if I let FC5 create a xorg.conf file it picks i810 driver. My limited experience with the graphical environment does not allow me to fiddle to much with that file but I have a feeling that there is an appropriate driver out there for this onboard video adapter.

Any idea?

QatQat



If I could have sex each time I reboot my server, I would definitely prefer Windoz over Linux!

 

[stevexff]

I had a similar problem with FC5 after I bought a Dell widescreen, also 1680x1050. I tried a number of things with X configurations, nothing worked. FC6 came out a couple of weeks later, I installed that and it worked straight out of the box, and has been fine ever since.

Probably not the anwser you wanted, but at least it is an answer of sorts...

Steve

[small]"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." (Object:erlDesignPatterns)[/small]

 

[QatQat]

you are asking me to give up! Never give up!

just kidding, I must admit I thought of that but it is an option I cannot consider at present.

Probably I will do it with debian 4 in the near future.

Cheers

QatQat



If I could have sex each time I reboot my server, I would definitely prefer Windoz over Linux!

 

[QatQat]

Found the solution,

Intel onboard chipset does not support wide resolutions but only traditional 4x3 res. Very very weird in 2007 but this i the way it is.

There is a patch though that tricks the normal bios resolutions and allows the user to replace one of the existing with the desired one.

This patch is available for download from

http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/download.html

The patch has to be applied each time at reboot so a line in rc.local will do.

syntax is very basic

/usr/sbin/915resolution biosresnumber 1680 1050 24

where biosresnumber is one of the internal resolutions number, then width, height and coor depth.

I hope this will save headaches to other people using the intel chipset.

QatQat

If I could have sex each time I reboot my server, I would definitely prefer Windoz over Linux!