Works with TravelMate 663LMi with your modifications under SUSE 8.2! So I thing it works with Debian on a 663LMi,too.
Hope this helps a lot of people! (Please send questions with Email because i don?t read this group permanently! Heiko Koenig Martin Röhricht wrote: > Hello together, > > good news for all of you who work with a Laptop that uses the graphics > chip mentioned above and were not able to switch to a resolution of > 1400x1050, for example on an Acer Travelmate 661LMi. Alain Poirier > developed a C program that is able to change the provided BIOS > resolutions. The problem is that Acer did not patch the BIOS to provide > the right resolution for their displays, instead they put some > resolutions in it, that make no sense, like > Mode 3c : 1920x1440, 8 bits/pixel > The program is able to replace a resolution with another one by patching > the RAM version of the video bios. > You can find the software here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/ > On the Acer TM 661LMi we had to change one line in the C file on line > 34: "*bios_type = -1;" -> "*bios_type = 0;" > Then you compile the file (make) and install it as root (make install). > Now you can change the resolution by executing > 855resolution 3c 1400 1050 > and restarting the X server. This will change the resolution only for > this boot session, so make sure to mention the program in a startup > script if you want to have this thing work after reboot. > > Martin > >
