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Old 10-01-2003, 06:11 AM   #1
navajo
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Smile Inspiron 8600 can't reach 1600x1050


Hello ladys and gentlemans

I have adquire a Dell Inspiron 8600 and I run Linux Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1. The problem I have is that while booting I can see what linux is doing in the whole screen, until here good, I make logging and good, I start kde and then problems come. I can set only a resolution of 1400x1050 so that means that there are two black areas, left and right ,that does no display nothing, it is like if the 15,4" became 14". I can fix the resolution up and down but not left and right.
I have tried with all dell monitors and generic flat panels but there is no 1600x1050 supported.
I have a GeForce 4000 go so it should work. Somebody told me something about fame buffer in XFree86_4 but I didn't find nothing there about frame buffer.
Could I set this resolution manually?, How?

Thank you very much

Last edited by navajo; 10-01-2003 at 06:56 AM.
 
Old 10-01-2003, 09:26 PM   #2
finegan
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Hmm, first off, find out what your monitor's horiz+vert refresh rates are so that if you have to, you can just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand and add them in to the monitor section... like:

Code:
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Display 1"
        VendorName   "MAG"
        ModelName    "986FS"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 86.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
        Option       "DPMS"
EndSection
However, before you even jump there, have you installed the Nvidia drivers yet? Nvidia produces there own drivers, which makes the regular XFree driver look really pitiful.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._ia32_1.0-4496

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 10-03-2003, 11:14 AM   #3
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http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resour...ll-i8500-linux

http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resour...nfig-i8500.txt

These should help.
 
  


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