[CentOS] get widescreen 1280x800 for intel 965GM chipset

Wed May 28 12:15:25 UTC 2008
Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de>

Frank Cox schrieb:
> On Sun, 25 May 2008 21:31:53 -0400
> Chen Xu <xuchen66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have trouble to get 1280x800 resolution. The driver used is I810. I don't know
>> if the chipset is too new for the xorg driver, and can anyone tell me
>> if there is a fix,
>> maybe with 915resolution?
> 
> http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/intel-widescreen/index.html
> 

This did not work here on an acer laptop with C5.1;
because I used the 915resolution rpm from rpmforge and this does not 
include an init script...

I did to make it work:

- installed the 915resolution-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.rpm from rpmforge
- added the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
/usr/sbin/915resolution 54 1280 800 32
- that's all; no need to fiddle with xorg.conf because it just changes 
the reolution #54 from 1024x768 to 1280x800

Hth
Rainer