[ltp] 915resolution on an X41

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/1/06, Jamshed Kakar <jkakar@kakar.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone had any luck getting 915resolution to do anything useful on
> an X41, running Ubuntu Dapper?  I'm trying to drive 1920x1200 (on a Dell
> 2405FPW).  Before I bought the screen I researched around and discovered
> that people with Dell X1's had successfully managed to get 1920x1200
> with the same (915GM) chipset as in the X41.  I, perhaps naively,
> assumed that meant I'd be able to make it work with my X41.
>
> When I use 915resolution it seems to work--ie: verifying with
> 915resolution -l shows the new value I've set.  When I start X.org it
> complains that there is no 1920x1200 resolution available and falls back
> to 1600x1200.  I've tried changing each of the available modes to no
> avail.
>
> Any help/insight would be much appreciated!
>

Intel is working on native modesetting in house.  With native
modesetting the bios is no longer used so these limitations no longer
apply.  You can try the native modesetting version of the driver from
the freedesktop git tree.

Alex

> Thanks,
> J.
>
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