Needing help with display problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 19:24:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
> My new laptop has an Intel WXGA video card - and I have no more detail than
> that.  dpms identifies it as an "LCD panel 1280x1024", yet X insists that
> 1024x768 is the best it can do.  That produces horrible distortions, so
> it's important to get this sorted.
> 
> I tried commenting out the dpms option and adding a Modes line, but still
> I'm stuck with the same display.  Running xrandr in konsole gives me
> 
> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
> default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
> 	1024x768	61.0*
> 	800x600	61.0
> 	640x480	60.0
> 	1024x600	 0.0
> 
> Before I tried to fix things I think I was seeing 1024 x 600, as the
> 1024x768 does fill my screen, whereas the original display was taller than
> the screen.
> 
> Any ideas what might be causing the problem, and what I could do about it?
> 
I should have added that it's currently using the vesa driver, as when I 
installed F12 I had no display whatsoever.

Anne
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