Description of problem: I seem to be unable to get 1400x1050 on the build-in laptop screen. It's a Latitude D505 (BIOS A09), but I guess what matters here is: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.1.1-7.fc8 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 0. set 915resolution up so that 1400x1050 is listed as mode 3c 1. remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf 2. run s-c-display 3. select i810 driver 4. startx (selecting Quit when told that running X as root is very dumb indeed) 5. display comes up at 1024 6. re-do steps 1-4 but with intel driver Actual results: xorg will only come up at 1024x768. - i810 driver nags that it just does not know 1400x1050 and the relevant modes show up as follows "Mode: 3c (0x0)" in the log - intel driver nags about sync out of range - explicitly adding the monitor type in s-c-display dos not help - making a modeline with gtf does not help (it seems to be ignored) Expected results: after setting the mode with 915resolution I was expecting the machine to be able to use the mode Additional info: # 915resolution -l Intel 800/900 Series VBIOS Hack : version 0.5.3 Chipset: 855GM BIOS: TYPE 1 Mode Table Offset: $C0000 + $29f Mode Table Entries: 39 Mode 30 : 640x480, 8 bits/pixel Mode 32 : 800x600, 8 bits/pixel Mode 34 : 1024x768, 8 bits/pixel Mode 38 : 1280x1024, 8 bits/pixel Mode 3a : 1600x1200, 8 bits/pixel Mode 3c : 1400x1050, 8 bits/pixel Mode 41 : 640x480, 16 bits/pixel Mode 43 : 800x600, 16 bits/pixel Mode 45 : 1024x768, 16 bits/pixel Mode 49 : 1280x1024, 16 bits/pixel Mode 4b : 1600x1200, 16 bits/pixel Mode 4d : 1400x1050, 16 bits/pixel Mode 50 : 640x480, 32 bits/pixel Mode 52 : 800x600, 32 bits/pixel Mode 54 : 1024x768, 32 bits/pixel Mode 58 : 1280x1024, 32 bits/pixel Mode 5a : 1600x1200, 32 bits/pixel Mode 5c : 1400x1050, 32 bits/pixel tarball with configs and logs attached
Created attachment 297354 [details] tarball with the config and the logs of the 4 tests
some additions: - with BIOS A11 (latest) and the i810 driver I get a bar of about 1 cm of garbled pixels at the top of the display and the rest is shifted down by that 1cm. Resolution is still 1024x768 - with BIOS A11 (latest) and the intel driver I get exactly the same results as with BIOS A09 - to be ultra-paranoid, for all these tests grub was configured as follows * splashimage commented out * hiddenmenu commented out * kernel lines modified to not use rhgb - and the default runlevel for all these tests was 3. so the system comes up in plain old text mode
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gaaaah, my bad! The machine in question is one of the few D505 that has a 14.1” XGA (1024x768) instead of a SXGA+ (1400x1050) display. That's what I get for offering to install somebody's notebook without looking at the existing Win installation to double check the screen resolution.