I just migrated my working Fedora Core 8 desktop to CentOS 5.1 and went from my nice 1680x1050 resolution to 1280x1024. I have made all the possible xorg.conf changes I found on the net to no avail. I tried system-config-display –reconfig and it allows me to pick the resolution but reverts back to 1280x1024 in X?
Anyone know what might need to be done in CentOS for this to work? The skewed aspect ratio drives me nuts☺
Thanks! jlc
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:37:09 -0600 "Joseph L. Casale" jcasale@ActiveNetwerx.com wrote:
Anyone know what might need to be done in CentOS for this to work?
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/intel-widescreen/index.html
Anyone know what might need to be done in CentOS for this to work?
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/intel-widescreen/index.html
Frank, I installed 915resolution but when executing it, it says "Intel Chipset detected but cant determine type..." Any ideas?
Thanks! jlc
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:31:06 -0600 "Joseph L. Casale" jcasale@ActiveNetwerx.com wrote:
I installed 915resolution but when executing it, it says "Intel Chipset detected but cant determine type..." Any ideas?
The latest version of 915resolution is apparently 0.5.3, available here: http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/
The latest version of 915resolution that "yum search 915resolution" reports on one of my Centos boxes is 0.5.2-2.el5.rf
Try installing 0.5.3 from the webpage and see if that supports your chipset.
Try installing 0.5.3 from the webpage and see if that supports your chipset.
Frank, That seems to be a step in the right direction, #915resolution -l now correctly enumerates the modes and I can set my resoltuion but I can not force a refresh rate that works. It wants to use 56Hz, but I need to use min 60Hz.
My xorg.conf has the following:
Section "Monitor" #(II) I810(0): Supported additional Video Mode: #(II) I810(0): clock: 119.0 MHz Image Size: 433 x 271 mm #(II) I810(0): h_active: 1680 h_sync: 1728 h_sync_end 1760 h_blank_end 1840 h_border: 0 #(II) I810(0): v_active: 1050 v_sync: 1053 v_sync_end 1059 v_blanking: 1080 v_border: 0 #(II) I810(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 81 kHz, PixClock max 140 MHz #(II) I810(0): Monitor name: SyncMaster #(II) I810(0): Serial No: H9LP901450 Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Samsung" ModelName "206BW" DisplaySize 433 271 VertRefresh 60 Modeline "1680x1050_60" 119 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 EndSection
As far as I can tell by searching the net, this would be all I need? One thing to note, in your web page you point to a conf file in /etc/sysconfig? How does 915resoltuion know to use that? It also doesnt register itself as a service such that chkconfig can use it? I just created a bash script with "/usr/sbin/915resolution 30 1680 1050 24" in it and linked it in rc5.d/.
Thanks! jlc
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:26:22 -0600 "Joseph L. Casale" jcasale@ActiveNetwerx.com wrote:
As far as I can tell by searching the net, this would be all I need?
I don't see anything obviously missing there. Perhaps "60.0 - 60.0" would work better for VertRefresh, though. Or it might not make any difference.
One thing to note, in your web page you point to a conf file in /etc/sysconfig? How does 915resoltuion know to use that?
That's how program in the "official rpm" installs itself. The configuration file is /etc/sysconfig/915resolution. I assume that directory and filename are built into the program.
It also doesnt register itself as a service such that chkconfig can use it?
Again, the rpm does do that. I never installed 915resolution from anything other than the rpm, myself.
Perhaps your best bet would be to download the 915resolution srpm and tear it apart, copy the newer files in and do any editing that's required, and rebuild it to be the newer version, then install that. (I don't know how much work that would be as I haven't looked at that srpm.)
I just created a bash script with/usr/sbin/915resolution 30 1680 1050 24" in it and linked it in rc5.d/.
There is a greater-than-zero chance that you're doing something wrong. The more I think about it the more I think you would be best off to try building a 915resolution rpm and go from there. I know that the "rpm method" works, provided that you have a rpm to work with, of course.
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