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Old 06-25-2007, 10:00 PM   #1
diegoj
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Question Help with widescreen resolution!


Question 1:

Hi, can anyone help-me with that? I don`t know how to solve that i already search for solution in google and other places but without success /: I really need to use my laptop on 1280x800 i`m really tired of use 1024x768.

Question 2:

After i update my kernel to 2.6 i cannot use resolution like 1024x768 on shell. Why? How can i solve that? When i use the default kernel from slackware i only need to change in lilo.conf, now when i do that i have a black screen.

omfg /:


 
Old 06-26-2007, 02:28 AM   #2
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A1: add a new resolution 1280x800 to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or if you use XFree86, use XF86config or something instead of xorg.conf). Edit the file as root,
Code:
su
vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
or use your favourite editor instead of vim. Locate the resolution lines (one line per colour depth), and where it says something like
Code:
"1024x768" "800x600"
add "1280x800" in front of it, so it becomes
Code:
"1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600"
do the same for every resolution line if you want that for every colour depth. Save, close and restart X (CTRL+ALT+BACKSCAPE while using X).

A2: maybe it's a kernel option. I haven't ever used that big resolutions in console, nor 2.4 kernels for a while. Search the web for how you use the 'vga=' option in the kernel line, if I'm right it's got something to do with this.

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