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[Jon Vaughan <jsvaughan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have put some recap details below but 2 crucial things:

1.  Do you know how I can specify that the system should use the intel
driver?  Is that the Driver "intel" line in your xorg.conf?
The machine has both xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1.2.0.0-1ubuntu3 and
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu3.   I had assumed that since the
intel driver is installed that magically it would be used (shows my lack of
experience - I will feel particularly stupid if this turns out to be the
problem :) )

2.  I've just investigated xrandr and I see that i can add an undetected
mode.  I haven't tried this yet but I'm going to give it a go in a minute.
I don't have another monitor to fiddle around with unfortunately.

xrandr --addmode S-video 1280x1024


Thanks v much for helping!

J



Some recap info:

- I have a dell monitor that the x301 happily drives in windows via vga at
1280×1024.  This is the resolution I would like under ubuntu.
- If I boot into linux with the monitor attached, I get 1024 x 768.  By
doing 'Configure Display Settings' I have the option to pick 1152 x 864 but
in about 80% of cases selecting that just puts junk on the monitor, stops
the laptop screen being updated and I end up rebooting.
- If I don't boot with the monitor attached but attach it after boot and
change display settings to turn it on, sometimes I get similar problems with
1024 x 768
- I have tried various xorg.confs.

I've tried:
 - the one on here
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Intrepid_Ibex_(8.10)_on_an_X301
-  your one, as below
- When running with the monitor attached in 1024 x 768 it looked like the
following:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
    SubSection "Display"
        Virtual    2592 900
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

When I run xrandr I get the same display options for the monitor as I get in
the ubuntu gui, i.e. no 1280



On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ferdinand Haselbacher <
fhasex20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To make it on the list:
>
> which screen do you have? 1024x768 doesn't work, it is a 4:3 resolution?
>
> have you tried xrandr manually?
>
>
> mfg
> Ferdinand
> Jon Vaughan wrote:
> > Thanks for replying! (although it doesn't work for me,
> > unfortunately).  The options I get to select from are 1360 x 768, 1152
> > x 864, 1024 x 768 (same as before - I did have a virtual section
> > setup, just not quite the same size) and other smaller resolutions.
> > Its a 4:3 screen so 1360 x 768 no use, and when i pick 1152 x 864 all
> > sorts of things go wrong, nothing is clickable and I have to power
> > off.  I'm doing VGA to analog in on the monitor, is that what you do?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Ferdinand Haselbacher
> > <fhasex20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:fhasex20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Jon Vaughan wrote:
> >     > Hello X301 users!
> >     >
> >     > Have any of you managed to get more than 1024 x 768 resolution on
> an
> >     > external VGA monitor under Linux?  I've done a fair bit of googling
> >     > and various xorg.conf tweaking but not getting anything useful.
> >     >
> >     You need a virtual setting in your xorg.conf
> >
> >     for e.g.:
> >     Section "Monitor"
> >        Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
> >     EndSection
> >
> >     Section "Screen"
> >        Identifier    "Default Screen"
> >        Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
> >        Device        "Configured Video Device"
> >        SubSection "Display"
> >            Virtual    3080 1900
> >        EndSubSection
> >     EndSection
> >
> >     Section "Device"
> >        Driver "intel"
> >        Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
> >        #Option "NoDRI"
> >     EndSection
> >
> >
> >     this should work! OOB
> >
> >     so far,
> >     ferdinand
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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