wxga drivers? (Mandrake 10)
 

I have an hp pavilion zd7000. I installed Mandrake 10.

I could not find a "display" choice that would match and hp doesn't provide any useful specifics. The display is 1440 x 900 and the best I can come up with is 1200 x 865 or so, selecting one of the hp "lcd screen" choices.

Anyone know how to give the correct screen dimensions?

In "install" mode, the entire screen is used (although it basically stretches everything) and when I had SuSE linux on the computer, it did the same -- stretched the display video to cover the whole screen. (But I don't know what driver SuSE linux had selected & it wasn't entirely satisfactory either).

Thanks.

(I have a couple of other issues, too. The touchpad doesn't work properly, I have to use the mouse buttons instead of tapping it. It worked in Mandrake 9.2 and SuSE 9. Also, I can't boot with my Targa USB port emulator installed, because it has a ps2 mouse port and the Mandrake apparently confuses the two mice, so I get none at all.)

Lastly. there is an internal Broadcom wireless card. With SuSE Linux, I downloaded "linuxant" drivers tht worked (at least until the 30 day trial period ran out ...) Do I have to buy the drivers or are there open source drivers that work?

Thanks once again.

You know, I had it running just fine under Mandrake 9.2 by following a good guide on the gentoo forums, the same still works for the 2.6 kernel for Mandrake Community 10. Only problem I've found is that NVidia has yet to put drivers out for the kernel that comes with mdk10, so you have to go without these drivers (still works fine), or modify your kernel to cheat the script from nvidia into working.

The readme that can get you quite alot of good info to point you to the general aesthetics of xfree can be found here. Actually, for the 2.4 kernel, this is just about all you need to get everything except a couple of specific things working. He did his homework here, so I don't have to.

The one section that will matter the most to you will be:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "wide-screen-lcd"
HorizSync 30-64
VertRefresh 50-100
Modeline "1440x900" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync
EndSection

After that, just try to emulate his XF86Config-4 file as best as possible to get it all nice and pretty in the GUI app of your choice.