Inspiron 700m Resolution Problem

[Joseph]

First of all, I'm new to this forum, so hi. I was looking around for a Linux forum that I like, and I think I found it.

I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 700m. It has a WXGA screen (1280x800) and Intel 855GME graphics. Before buying this laptop, I searched around the forums and newsgroups to make sure I wouldn't have a problem with the resolution. Since I found stuff from people who have 1280x800 working on an Intel 855, I figured this would be the easy part.

So now I have the notebook, and I find that I was wrong. I installed Fedora Core 2 on it, and most of it is going fine, but no matter what I have tried, I can't get the 1280x800 resolution that I want. I looked at previous post on this site and others, but nothing seems to work so far. I keep on getting 1024x768 or 800x600.

Here's the section of my xorg.conf for the video, as it is now. I was hoping somebody here may be able to tell me what's wrong. The modeline I'm using is one I got by running gtf. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

*****************************************
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x800"
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
Modeline "1280x800" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Intel 855"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
*****************************************

-Joseph

[CrystalCowboy]

Intel has a driver for that, check the Intel download center:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=39&strTypes=DRV%2CARC&ProductID=922&OSFullName=Linux*&submit=Go%21

[CrystalCowboy]

HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0

I think I might try bumping up that value for HorizSync. 48.5 doesn't seem like enough. Hsync is in KHz, Vsync is in Hz.
Here's my sync numbers for a 1280x1024 Viewsonic VG181b:
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
And for a 1024x768 Viewsonic VE500:
HorizSync 30.0 - 62.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0



I should mention that we got the Intel driver working on a RH9 system, and it did some good, but we haven't yet got it working under FC2 with a 2.6.8-1.x kernel.

[bijoux]

sorry for bring this thread back to life.
im having th same problem with my dell 700m.
i can only seem to get 1024x768 resolution.
did anybody find a fix for this? thanks

[Vincentb]

All,

On my DELL 510m, I was not able to set the screen resolution to 1400 * 1050. I use Fedora Core 3.0
I have upgrade my BIOS to the last version (0.8) and use a patch written by A. Poirier. This patch can be found here http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/
I compiled and installed it and now I can get the 1400 * 1050 resolution.
I hope this can help you all ...

Regards,
Vincent

[RyGuy]

I found this site to be very helpful with configuring things for my 700m:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~scs49/install_linux.html