Fedora 3 Dell Inspiron 8600 Screen Resolution Issues

[obagasha]

I just purchase a Dell Inspiron 8600 which comes with the nVidia GeForce Go5200 Video and WXGA 15.4in (1280x800) Display. I just installed Fedora Core 3 (Kernel 2.6.9-1.667). Now am having some problem getting it work properly at a resolution higher 1280x800. I went I set it to 1280x1024, I can see everything clearly but the "Top" and "Button" Screen are cut (guessing doesn't know that my display is Wide Screen. Does any know how I can fix there I would really appreciate that. I have googled and tried various XORG.Conf files and none seem to work and I was wondering if any can help me.

[heffe2001]

This should be a working xorg.conf file for a 8600, just remove the references to resolutions your panel doesn't support (I have the WUXGA, 1920x1200 so I've got all the modes installed, and mine uses a Go5650, but the modlines should be the same). It's also already set up for the current released nvidia drivers (driver nvidia instead of driver nv):

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the 
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#	Option	"Xleds"		"1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#	Option	"XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
# or:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
#	Option	"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:nocaps"
#
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Modes"

       # 1280x800 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 62.62 kHz; pclk: 107.21 MHz
	Identifier     "16:10"
	ModeLine     "1280x800" 107.2 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835
       # 1280x800 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 71.40 kHz; pclk: 123.38 MHz
	ModeLine     "1280x800" 123.4 1280 1368 1504 1728 800 801 804 840
       # 1280x800 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 84.80 kHz; pclk: 147.89 MHz
	ModeLine     "1280x800" 147.9 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848
       # 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz
	ModeLine     "1680x1050" 147.1 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
       # 1680x1050 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 82.20 kHz; pclk: 188.07 MHz
	ModeLine     "1680x1050" 188.1 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1096
       # 1680x1050 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 93.76 kHz; pclk: 214.51 MHz
	ModeLine     "1680x1050" 214.5 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103
       # 1680x1050 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 111.20 kHz; pclk: 256.20 MHz
	ModeLine     "1680x1050" 256.2 1680 1808 1992 2304 1050 1051 1054 1112
       # 1920x1200 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 93.97 kHz; pclk: 246.59 MHz
	ModeLine     "1920x1200" 246.6 1920 2064 2272 2624 1200 1201 1204 1253
       # 1920x1200 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 107.10 kHz; pclk: 282.74 MHz
	ModeLine     "1920x1200" 282.7 1920 2072 2280 2640 1200 1201 1204 1260
       # 1920x1200 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 127.10 kHz; pclk: 337.58 MHz
	ModeLine     "1920x1200" 337.6 1920 2072 2288 2656 1200 1201 1204 1271
#       Modeline "1920x1200"  193.16 1920 2048 2256 2592  1200 1201 1204 1242 -HSync +VSync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Dell 1600x1200 Laptop Display Panel"
	UseModes     "16:10"
	HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
	VertRefresh  59.0 - 85.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1680x1050" "1280x800" "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection

[obagasha]

Thanks for the Response, can I use the default NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) driver that comes with Fedora Core 3 or do I have download the another nVidia Driver first before modifing the xorg file.

[heffe2001]

I'd grab the latest from Nvidia, that's what I'm using. If you don't, you get NO 3d acceleration at all. Runs much better with the newest drivers for linux.

I just selected that during install, so it'd come up. You could rename it to whatever card you want, but I just left it alone .