adjusting resolution on widescreen laptop
 

hi,i got a zd7000 laptop from HP. its 17" and has resolution of 1440*900. Mandrke 9.1 does not offer this as a choice in its list of resolutions. as a result only a portion of my screeen is used.
What shud i do so as to get the screen covered totally ?
Thanx.

Hi. You posted this a while ago, so I don't know if you're still waiting for a response, but....

Try editing /etc/X11/XF86Config.

There's a line (or maybe more) starting with Modes.

put "1440x900" as the fist pair of values on the Modes lines.

Dave.

Hey, just wondering, how is the zd7000 working for ya? Sleep and all the good stuff notbooks have working? I was going to get one, and run linux also. Does everything work, and did you get your MS rebate?

I was waiting for the Apple G5 powerbooks to come out just so I could get that size of screen, but I'd much rather have a x86 processor, and HT to boot.

Thanx,
Stan

Hey,
I have a HP zd7000 wit the 15" screen. Does any one know how to configure X to work with this screen. It has a resolution of 1280x800. If any one knows how please email me at billyburly@billyburly.com.

I found a lot of good info here and here . Those are probably your best bet.

Thanx,
Stan

ZD7000
 

Thanks for the post. Ive been to the zd7000 forum, unfortunatly i have the 15" screen and all the people there have the 17" screen. It has a different resolution and I am having trouble adapting their X config files. Thanks anyways. Mabey the gentoo forum will help a little. If any one knows anything about configuring x and the nvidia driver, please help. I can get x to use the nvidia driver but when x loads the screen is compressed and only on the left half of the screen. Thanks again.

Thanks,
Bill