[XFree86] 1400x1050 support

2004-12-09 Thread Keith Sabine
I've installed Suse 9.0 on a Sony VGN-B1XP laptop which has an Intel 855 chipset and a 1400x1050 LCD. Under XFree86 4.3.0 the best resolution I could achieve was 1280x1024, as the XFree86 logfile claimed there was no mode of name "1400x1050". I tried installing 4.4.0 as someone suggested that this

Re: [XFree86] 1400x1050 support

2004-12-09 Thread dep
quoth Keith Sabine: | I've installed Suse 9.0 on a Sony VGN-B1XP laptop which | has an Intel 855 chipset and a 1400x1050 LCD. | | Under XFree86 4.3.0 the best resolution I could achieve | was 1280x1024, as the XFree86 logfile claimed there | was no mode of name "1400x1050". | | I tried installing 4

Re: [XFree86] 1400x1050 support

2004-12-09 Thread Keith Sabine
dep wrote: quoth Keith Sabine: | I've installed Suse 9.0 on a Sony VGN-B1XP laptop which | has an Intel 855 chipset and a 1400x1050 LCD. | | Under XFree86 4.3.0 the best resolution I could achieve | was 1280x1024, as the XFree86 logfile claimed there | was no mode of name "1400x1050". | | I tried i

Re: [XFree86] 1400x1050 support

2004-12-09 Thread dennis e. powell
quoth Keith Sabine: | Yes, I've already got the "CalcAlgorithm" set to | "CheckDesktopGeometry". According to the log file, it sees the LCD as | a 1400x1050 but can't find a mode | for that resolution - and indeed there is not one listed in the log; | the highest mode | is 1280x1024, 24 bit, which

Re: [XFree86] 1400x1050 support

2004-12-09 Thread L. Jensen
On Thursday 09 December 2004 09:25 am, Keith Sabine wrote: > I've installed Suse 9.0 on a Sony VGN-B1XP laptop which > has an Intel 855 chipset and a 1400x1050 LCD. > > Under XFree86 4.3.0 the best resolution I could achieve > was 1280x1024, as the XFree86 logfile claimed there > was no mode of nam

Re: [XFree86] 1400x1050 support

2004-12-09 Thread Keith Sabine
L. Jensen wrote: Apparently the driver can only initialize resolutions that are specified in the video bios, but your laptop, like mine, does not include the right setting. There is a program by Alain Poirier called 855resolution which lets you patch the video bios in memory on every start up.

Re: [XFree86] 1400x1050 support (warning: logfile attached)

2004-12-09 Thread dep
quoth Keith Sabine: | The Intel chip *must* support 1400x1050, as it works happily when | booted under Windows. I've attached the logfile (sorry about the | size of it) if it means anything to anyone... the warning about the video bios checksum error piques one's interest . . . -- dep The sec