[ltp] 1024 x 768 resolution on thinkpad 600

Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:42:34 -0400


On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 09:53 -0500, Stan Weddington wrote:

> I put the thinkpad in a docking station, and loaded Debian Sarge with KDE 
> desktop on it.  Everything went fine except the max screen resolution that 
> KDE will show me is 800 x 600, even though XF86Config-4 is as follows:

I sold my 600 a while back,  but have you tried using 16-bit color
instead of 24-bit color?  (I don't remember how much video memory a
TP600 has ... but I do remember running mine in 16-bit color for *some*
reason or other.)

> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Device          "Generic Video Card"
>         Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
>         DefaultDepth    24

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