Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xorg
I have an emachines w-3052 with the following general specs. I also
have an emachines 17" monitor.
PCLinuxOS v.93a, AMD Sempron 3000+ 2GHz,512M,Nvidia GeForce4 64M,120GB/XP
PCLinuxOS.Free yourself!!
Linux_User_437009
With PCLinuxOS (and others) I routinely run at 1024x768 up to and
including 1680x1000 with this same hardware. Ubuntu will only run at
800x600 max no matter what I tell it to use on the boot menu.
This morning for instance I told it on the feisty livecd to use
1280x1024 (using the 'vga' option) and also set 'noapic' and 'acpi=on'
which for this machine is needed. The default boot parameters were used
otherwise.
While the system was booting the resolution was at the proper 1280x1024,
but when the desktop actually loaded up, it was right back to the same
old 800x600 max that has been the only desktop resoltion that shows up
for me. I have an option for 800x600 and 640x480 and that's it.
Installing to the hard drive makes no difference.
To be honest I don't know why I continue to try. It's not like I have
some sort of exotic hardware or something. Pretty 'middle of the road'
sort of a system. Here's a copy of my xorg.conf from pclinuxos that is
a working config....
*** PCLinuxOS xorg.conf ***
# File generated by XFdrake (rev 41554)
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# font server independent of the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
# minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does
not work
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Plug'n Play"
ModelName "eView 17f3"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630
# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corp."
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection
*** End PCLinuxOS xorg.conf ***
Hope this helps you figure out why I am at max of 800x600.
Bill Turner
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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800x600 max feisty livecd (and previous)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103319
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