Needing help with display problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 20:28:06 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 19:35:08 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> lspci -v
> 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0046 (rev 12) 
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0002
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 2058 [size=8]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
        Kernel modules: i915

> > > 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.
> 
> The vesa driver is the culprit, I doubt it can do any resolutions other
> than those standard ones, as reported by xrandr.
> 
I did wonder if that was so.

> You need to find out the model of the graphics card, and use more
> appropriate driver. Did you try the regular intel driver? What does
> 
> Xorg -configure
> 
> detect?
> 
Hmm - hadn't tried that  before - I tried setting it up with system-configure-
display.

<snip>
Section "Module"
	Load  "dri2"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
EndSection
<snip>

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"         	# <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"       	# <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "Unknown Board"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection

I haven't yet tried setting this as the xorg.conf, in case I need to do 
something else to load the Intel driver.

Thanks for the help so far - I hope this is enough info to get things moving 
;-)

Anne
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