X-problems on the inspiron 8000 continue

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

> I was possibly a bit quick yesterday to declare that everything was now
> perfect with X on the inspiron 8000. It installed fine when I selected
> 1400x1050 and booted at full resolution in X (it did not autodetect and
> configure automatically though, bug 1143).

Ok.

>
> I wanted to take some screenshots to place in the Win-FOSS installer, so
> I wanted to reduce the resolution to make smaller images. I used the set
> resolution utility from the Computer menu. 1400x1050 and 1280x1024
> (which I selected myself during install) work fine, but 640x480, 800x600
> and 1024x768 (which were pre-selected) do not work at all. When choosing
> those, I get a split screen with nasty aberrations.

Can we have the X logs?

> I guess if the new xresprobe detects the
> 1400x1050 perfectly, then it won't suggest any other option and no other
> choices will be available from Gnome.

This is correct. A LCD panel has "only" one resolution. All the others are
(smaller) scaled to fit the biggest one.

Fabio

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