Resolution on laptop

[Jeff Vian]

Don Rogers wrote:

>Hello,
>I am having trouble getting a Gateway M305X laptop to run X at the
>machine's native (advertised) resolution.  
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>I am running Fedora Core 1.
>
>It should be able to do 1024x768 at 18bit color (262K).  The best that I
>have gotten is 800x600 with Millions of colors. 
>
>I have tried changing /etc/X11/XF86Config by adding another 'Display'
>subsection to the 'Screen' section where:
> Depth 18     "1024x768"
>
>Then I launched another X session with 
>'startx -- :1 -depth 18'
>
>That seems to lock the machine up tight!  Reboot required!
>
>Any ideas how to proceed?  The 18bit color depth seems unusual.
> 
>
AFAIK the standard color depths are 8,16, 24, and 32
try the 16 bit depth.

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