On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:36:53PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: > I have 2 PCs with a 915 chipset. One wants to use 1280x768 resolution and > the other wants 1152x864 resolution. I haven't setup a new system in a > while with X and I'm running into some problems/differences. > > I like to have my systems setup so that I can cycle through different > resolutions. Unfortunately, I'm unable to get this to work. The debconf > configuration for xserver-xorg doesn't ask about the video anymore. > > Around the time that the xserver-xorg-video-i810 package was changed to > install xserver-xorg-video-intel (dummy package), I was setting up a system > and was also having problems with it and resolutions and went with the older > package that contained the i810 driver. > > Apparently, the xserver-xorg-video-intel has not had any of these problems > fixed. > > Here's my current configuration:
... > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "Configured Video Device" > Monitor "Configured Monitor" > DefaultDepth 16 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1152x864" "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" > EndSubSection > EndSection the intel driver is pretty good at detecting stuff these days. I recommend you start with a bare bones xorg.conf and see what it detects before you start trying to force things on it. Comment out everything in the screen section except the Identifier, Device and Monitor and see what happens. A close scrutiny of /var/log/Xorg.0.log will then tell you exactly what it finds... A
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