A few months got a nice e-mail from Timo Aaltonen with a link to his ftp site with an experimental driver which works:
http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xorg72/new/ For a detailed discussion of the issues related to Intel and 1680x1050 see the Mandriva site: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2007.1/Experimental_Intel_driver Installed this in Mandriva, it works excellent. Probably this solution of Mandriva wil also work for external monitors. Definite/final solution for these issues seems to be the upcoming x-org 7.3 Regards, Wim Michael Greifeneder wrote: > I have the same problem as described by Directrix1. I have a Thinkpad X41 and > an external TFT monitor with a 1680x1050 resolution. However monitor menu > information tells me that my monitor is running 1400x1050. > I see the same artifacts. Without anti-aliasing it looks really ugly. > > xrandr shows that used resolution is 1680x1050 > *0 1680 x 1050 ( 427mm x 267mm ) *60 > > I can resize firefox with a web developer add-on to 1680x1050 and firefox is > displayed fullsize. > Can it be that there is an internal resolution and the displayed resolution > on my monitor is different? > > Is there any progess on this? > > My system: > Ubuntu feisty fawn > Card: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML > Installed driver: xserver-xorg-video-intel > > -- Intel 945 Video 1680X1050 resolution display outside physical dimensions of the monitor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95863 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
