Successful dapper drake install on Dell Inspiron 9400 Core Duo

[William Grant]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 11:38 +0800, Charles Yao wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/11/06, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On 5/10/06, spira_mirabilis <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>
>         wrote:
>         >
>         > I have also installed Dapper (Kubuntu Milestone 7) on the
>         Inspiron 9400.
>         > Everything works great, sound, peripherals, (including the
>         media card 
>         > slot which I heard was not working previously), except the
>         version of
>         > the laptop I have has the Intel 950 Integrated graphics
>         controller, (ah
>         > if only it was Nvidia...) and I can't seem to make it have a
>         resolution 
>         > higher than 1024x768, no matter what I do. I have tried
>         tinkering with
>         > 915resolution, messing with Xorg config, to no avail. Maybe
>         when
>         > 915resolution is included in X, this will work?
>         >
>         > I also installed the SMP kernel to make sure I got the most
>         from the 
>         > Duo Core processor.
>         >
>         > Overall, this laptop is well supported by Dapper.
>         >
>         > PS- I also posted on a related thread :
>         > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156965
>         
>         Sounds like you need the 915resolution app to set the video
>         bios.
>         
>         do a search for it, and you'll get some pointers on setting it
>         up.  I
>         have a dell 700m with 810 or 845 integrated video, and need to
>         use it
>         to get my 1280x800 to work.
> 
> The Intel cards are a real headache, it took me about a week the last
> time I tried getting the Inspiron 700m's 1280x800 resolution working. 

In contrast, it took me just a couple of minutes to get my Inspiron
630m's 1280x800 working (on an i915), which I believe required an
identical method. However, it's all automated in the latest Dapper, in
most cases.

William.
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