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Old 06-07-2006, 09:20 AM   #1
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dell display


I installed FC5 on a dell latitude D610. The driver for the Intel 915GM was successfully loaded but the monitor type came up as unknown. The bios reports that the monitor is a "14" super XGA". Since that wasn't available in my display settings, I chose "dell 1400x1050 laptop display panel".

The optimal resolution setting for this monitor is 1400x1050. The problem is that when I choose this res it looks more like 1024x768 or even worse. The 1680x1050 res looks closer to 1400x1050 but is a bit blurry.

I've tried running Xorg -configure and it comes up as monitor type unknown. I'm wondering if there's a particluar tweak I should make to xorg.conf or if there's a better monitor type to choose in my display settings. Thanks.

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Old 06-08-2006, 12:49 AM   #2
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can you edit the bottom of your xorg.conf file where the preferred resolutions are written and add yours to the beginning of the list, save, and startx again?
 
Old 06-08-2006, 09:41 AM   #3
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I made the change to xorg.conf to no avail. The results were the same as when I had changed it in the display settings menu.

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Old 06-08-2006, 01:43 PM   #4
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can you post the entire [section] that you edited? as well as the section for your monitor and video card from that file?
 
Old 06-09-2006, 09:34 AM   #5
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There was an additional subsection in the screen section that I hadn't noticed. I removed it and it now appears to be displaying at 1400x1050 and the display settings also read 1400x1050. Thanks for the help.

It doesn't look quite as sharp as my windows install (dual-boot) but at this point, the issue is a bit subjective. I noticed that citrix screens and rdp desktops are real blurry but that could just be a microsoft issue. I really appreciate your help. Here's the bottom of my xorg.conf anyway. Thanks again.


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1400x1050"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
 
Old 06-09-2006, 01:08 PM   #6
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glad you got it working, your welcome.
i have a widescreen LCD monitor and it too isnt as nice looking in linux as it is in windows, maybe cause i dont have all the nice fonts and the setting for LCD/clearType fonts as in windows. oh well.
 
  


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