FC7: 1680x1050 screen resolution on thinkpad T61 with Intel 965GM X3100 video chipset.

[Mark C. Allman]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 07:15 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:

> --- Patrick <fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 07:05 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> > > Has anyone been able to get this working? All I get is a resolution of 1280
> > x
> > > 1024 or something like that, with no option for 1680x1050.
> > 
> > I have an Acer TM6465 which has an ATI X1300 video chipset. With the
> > vesa driver it was not possible to get 1680x1050 eiter. I think it is a
> > limitation of the vesa driver cause if you look in /var/log/X.log then
> > you will see a ton of resolutions but not 1680x1050.
> 
> Interesting, because Xubuntu 7.10 alpha does afford me that choice....I don't
> think it is an issue with non-existence of the driver. Maybe someone else has a
> solution?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Trotter
> 
> 
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On one of my systems I had to edit xorg.conf (in /etc/X11) to add a few
resolutions to the "modes" line.  The install of F7 didn't build
xorg.conf correctly at all and I had to fiddle with it.

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