Still trying to get to 1680x1050 WAS: Upgrade to 8.04 stuck in 800x600

[Frank McCormick]

NoOp wrote:
> On 10/20/2008 06:06 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
>>    Replying to my own mail here :)
>>
>>    I tried adding the scanning freqs to the config file but the best
>> success I have had is by running the server with the -configure setting.
>> It used DDC to find the monitor type...the highest resolution it will
>> give me is 1600x1200..still can't get the monitors native resolution
>> 1680x1050. In addition running at 1600x1200 gives me a screen thats too
>> big to fit the monitor and so I have to scroll the screen to see
>> everything. In addition the screen is a little distorted with circles
>> squashed into egg shapes.
>>
>> Xfix from the recovery boot is useless -- it gives me 640x480 and 800x600!!
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Frank
>>
> 
> The only other thing that I can think of is to try default depth at 16
> vs 24 to see if that makes a difference.
> 
> 
> 
  Tried 'em all! I finally got to 1680x1050...with a HUGE scrollable
screen which is a real PITA. I am suspecting a bug in the i810 driver.