Hi,
Has anybody out there figured how to get WXGA res on their laptop with the intel 915 vga chipset?? I've been trying for months with no luck!! Just installed Fedora Core 4 thinking it may work......but nope!!!

Anyone???????????

Cheers.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
Try to set it up by hands.

Yes, just try to change the resolution manually. Just replace 1024x768 (or whatever) with 1280x800. Just make sure you change the correct entry, however.

You may be running into the problem I had on the Sony Vaio FS640/W.
The problem is that the resolution is not registered in the video
BIOS. It's not likely that the vendor will change this, but you might
see if there's a BIOS upgrade available. Failing that, the resolution
table can be patched in memory after boot, but before X starts.

A program to do this is at http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/ .

I posted a write-up on my adventures with the FS640/W at
http://www.zvolve.com/~garry/lappy.html . The procedure I used is
described there.

I have a HP Laptop with a 1280x800 resolution.

I generated a ModeLine using the gtf command.
I used the command:
gtf 1280 1024 60 -x

This generates a mode line for a 60 hz refresh rate.
I redirected the output to a file "1280x800_60" and then inserted the file when making a Modes section.

If the original xorg.conf file doesn't have modelines, remember to match the name of the Modeline section, e.g. in the Modes section there is a line
identifier "Modes[0]"
The same identifier should be referred to in the Monitor section.

sample only:
I quickly grabbed this sample from the web. This sample doesn't have any mode-lines in the Modes section. You can insert the output of the gtf command there.

One hint, The display at other resolutions may not look as good. Consider only using the 1280x800 native resolution of the LCD screen.