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Conker1r

I have tried everything I've seen on this forum and doing google searches.
I simply can't get a 1280x800 resolution display on my laptop. I have installed on the hard drive Slitaz 3.0 both stable and cooking. Neither one gets the display correct. I've tried the 915 intel driver as well as the xf86-video drivers. I'v tried manually configuring xorg.conf and still nothing. The most it was able to display is 1024x600 and that was terrible since it did not stretch to fill the screen. And there are blank areas around the visible display.
So my plea is Please help me get this display working correctly.

Sony Vaio VGN-NR120E
Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310 @ 1.46GHz
1GB Ram 160GB HDD
Mobile Intel GL960 Express Chipset

ernia

do you have xorg-xf86-video-intel installed ?
may you install xorg-xrandr too and post the output of

xrandr

?
do you have a modes line in your Screen section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? eg:

Section "Screen"
   Identifier   "Default Screen"
   Device      "Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
   Monitor      "Generic Monitor"
   DefaultDepth   24
   SubSection "Display"
      Modes      "1280x800"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

you may want to check this too:
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/4786/#Comment_4786

Conker1r

This is what I get from xrandr:

xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 600, maximum 1024 x 600
default connected 1024x600+0+0 0mm x0mm
1024x600 0.0*
800x600 61.0
640x480 60.0

ernia

you did not answer all of my previous questions, can you answer please?
you can't use xrandr to have 1280x600 because it report "maximum 1024x600"
this is my Screen section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf


Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
                Modes    "1280x1024"    "1152x864"      "1024x768"      "832x624"       "800x600"       "720x400"       "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
                Modes    "1280x1024"    "1152x864"      "1024x768"      "832x624"       "800x600"       "720x400"       "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
                Modes    "1280x1024"    "1152x864"      "1024x768"      "832x624"       "800x600"       "720x400"       "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
                Modes    "1280x1024"    "1152x864"      "1024x768"      "832x624"       "800x600"       "720x400"       "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1280x1024"    "1152x864"      "1024x768"      "832x624"       "800x600"       "720x400"       "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024"    "1152x864"      "1024x768"      "832x624"       "800x600"       "720x400"       "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

put the Modes rows in you xorg,conf with just the "1280x600" mode, does it work?

mojo

I have a 2005 Dell E1505 laptop with Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) and WXGA 15.1" LCD

All I did to get 1280x800 was:

root@slitaz: tazpkg get-install xorg-xf86-video-intel

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf with nano under Section "Device"/Driver change "vesa" to "intel"

Conker1r

Yes installed the xorg-xf86-video-intel driver.
I have added the "modes" to the screen section.
Switched the driver to "intel" which makes X fail. So I have to use vesa.
The screen just doest not display correctly.
It was actually easy to find all this information on the forum.
I think it's may just not work on my particular machine.
Thank you all for your wonderful help. I my just try out crunchbang or some other small distro

ernia

with xorg-xf86-video-intel installed and no other video driver installed try to comment everything related to video configuration in /etc/init.d/hwconf.sh (save changes with tazusb if you are in a live system) delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot.
if it does not work you have two choices:
1)keep on trying to get it working with /etc/X11/xorg.conf
2)try the xvesa flavor : http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/slitaz/iso/3.0/flavors/slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso

Conker1r

So hey I finally got this laptop working with correct resolution of 1280x800x24
I found that the system was not loading the "intel_agp" into the Modules so i addded it.
here is what I did.
1. Add HorizSync and VertRefresh settings to the "Monitor" section
2. Add Load "intel_agp" to the "Modules" section.
3. Add DefaultDepth to the "Screen" section.
4. Add Modes to the "Display" subsection

Here is my xorg.conf if anyone else needs help with intel graphics.


Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/X11/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "intel_agp"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	HorizSync	40.0 -  65.0
	VertRefresh 	40.0 - 65.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
       	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes "1280x800" "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes "1280x800" "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Conker1r

failure to load "intel_agp" was the cause of my graphics not working properly

reidi

Conker1r's solution has worked for me as well. My system has (lspci) "Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev. 2)"

Adding the intel_agp module and correct Mode settings solved my problem where the display would only do 800x600.

I only wish these solutions were easier to find - the Intel 855 graphics device have been a problem with various GNU/Linux distributions I have tried.

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