Re: Can't get more than 1024x768 even with the on-board card properly detected (XFree86+KDE 3.3)

["Fernando Cacciola" <fernando_cacciola@hotmail.com>]

Grant Thomas wrote:
> I have an HP tablet pc to work on, so I couldn't test with your
> resolution, as mine
> only scales to 1024x768. This is what I did, and it could help you.
>
> when you start your X session, by default a log file is created at
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> type mv /var/log/XFree86.0.log /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old
>   this will just rename the logfile, so we can start a new one fresh.
> then
> type startx
> open /var/log/XFree86.0.log in your favorite text editor.
>
> Scroll until you see a line that looks like this (or something
> similar):
>
Thanks! That worked...
The i810 VESA driver was indeed not supporting 1152x864, but I could see in 
that log that it handled 1280x1024, so I used that (putting it in the config 
file)

Fernando Cacciola
SciSoft