Hello all,
(I posted this in the laptop forum and didn't get any replies so I wondered if I might have picked the wrong forum. Sorry for the repost but I've spent another day looking at the documentation for xorg.conf and web searching and I still can't see what I'm doing wrong)
I have a Dell Inspiron 510m which I'm trying to use with F11. When I start some programs (such as Emacs and the Photo viewer) I get lots of screen corruption. A little digging suggests that this might be because the screen is running at 1024x768 when the native resolution is 1400x1050.
Apparently to make it work I need to run 915resolution so the graphics bios reports the correct resolution. I've added this to a start-up file (which I have done in /etc/rc.d/rc.local) is this correct? Will it be run before X starts?. I hoped the this would make the automaticlly generated xorg.conf work but it didn't so I guess I need to modify the xorg.conf file so the correct resolution is available.
I've installed the system-config-display and used that to set the monitor type to "1400x1050 generic" but I still can't set the resolution to more than 1024x768. I modified what I think is the correct section of the xorg.conf file so that it reads
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection
(my only addition is the Modes line and this is based on the README from 915resolution) but this just makes the screen display only the top left section of a larger display. If I go into "Preferences->Display" then I see that the resolution in the "Display preferences" is still 1024x768. I can't work out how to change this.
Can anybody help? What am I not doing (or what am I doing that I should not!)?
Thanks in advance
Phil Mason
Linear Mode
