Laptop screen resolution

[Kam Leo]

On 5/9/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:00 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > I just noticed that my Dell Inspiron laptop, which bills it's screen
> > > as 1400x1050, actually has 1680x050 usable pixels. I edit xorg.conf to
> > > add that resolution, but KDE does not present me that option when I
> > > log in after killing X. I tried looking for the KDE configuration file
> > > to edit by hand, but I could not find it. Would this be unwise? How
> > > can I add 1680x1050 as a resolution option?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Dotan Cohen
> > That is interesting. How did you discover that a higher resolution was
> > actually being used? If you do a CTL-alt-F1 and log in as root. And then
> > run system-config-display you don't see the higher resolution as a
> > choice?
>
> It's running at the lower (1400x1050) resolution. There is a BIOS
> setting which stretches lower resolutions to fill the entire screen.
> Disabling that option makes the screen display pixel-pixel, but there
> are black bars. And now my fonts aren't fuzzy!
>
> I do see the higher resolution in system-config-display, and I set it,
> but the lappy does not use it. Checking in Gnome/KDE control panels
> (and by the black bars) I see that I'm still at 1400x1050.
>
> Dotan Cohen

Do you really believe Dell would give you a higher res display without
informing you?