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I edited xorg.conf to configure my widescreen monitor. it says the resolution should be 1200x800, but when I open the KDE Display settings, i get 1024x768 and 800x600 resolutions. I saved xorg.conf as root.
If you've dual booted into Windows, can you right-click on your desktop, select Properties / Settings / Advanced / Monitor and see what screen refresh rate you're using. Also, on the Adapter tab can you please click the "List All Modes" button and confirm that the resolution / colour depth / frequency you want to display is in the list?
From memory the refresh rate has to be inside the HorizSync range, but I was hoping it wasn't the same value as the refresh rate displayed in the KDE Display Settings panel. That way a quick change of refresh rate might enable the higher resolution.
Do you mind running `/usr/X11R6/bin/xrandr` and checking the output? Without options it displays the resolutions that you should be able to select. At this stage, all I can think of is it's a mismatch between resolution settings or the wrong driver selected for your video card.
oh my bad, I'm sorry. I did that in text-only mode.
Here's what it outputs while I'm running KDE:
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SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
*0 1024x768 { 302mm x 191 mm ) *61
1 800x600 { 302mm x 191 mm ) 73
2 640x480 { 302mm x 191 mm ) 86
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none
OK, if those are the only resolutions returned even though you have the Modes correctly specified for each colour depth, it's most likely that either the wrong video driver was set up with whatever tool you generated your config or your video card doesn't have enough RAM to display the resolution that you want. Since it sounds like you're happy with your windows display it's more likely the video driver.
Try running lspci to see if the 'VGA compatible controller' line identifies the card.
From memory, if you run /usr/X11R6/bin/xorgsetup, you'll get a GUI to let you re-configure X where you can select the correct driver based on your card.
It looks as though someone at http://freshrpms.net/docs/x1/ was having problems with the same video hardware as yours. They used the i810 driver, but because it was a few months back they had to download the current stuff from CVS (you shouldn't need to). From that page:
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As of writing, Fedora Core 4 installed fine, but only with the vesa driver at 800x600, though. It can also work at 1024x768 but you'll get a streched display. Recompiling xorg-x11 from CVS is required in order for the i810 driver to recognize the card and provide accelerated display. The other option is to replace the i810_drv.o file, but text consoles will break unless fb is used and you need to change HorizSync to 20-90, VertRefresh to 60-100 and add this line to the Monitor section of your xorg.conf :
ModeLine "1280x768" 111.69 1280 1336 1616 1728 768 770 782 808
For a 1024x768 framebuffer console, you can append this to your grub.conf kernel lines :
vga=0x317 video=i810fb:vram:2,xres:1024,yres=768,bpp:24,hsync1:30,hsync2:49,vsync1:40,vsync2:70,accel,mtrr
I haven't tested the VGA output yet, but hopefully it may work with the i810switch utility.
I think for that video card a newer xorg version may come with the driver u need. Check at the xorg web page and do search here/and google for that driver. Good luck.
My apologies - I thought that the updated i810 driver was in the released version of xorg. According to http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/i810.4.html the 915G is supported and I assumed that your 915GM was included in that.
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