[solved-ISH]intel graphics problem setting resolution

ninjaprawn · 2010-05-02 21:00:46

Hi,

Just trying to get a box running on intel graphics, but I cant get a better resolution than 1024x768 my xorg is below.

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

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dri2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
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"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"             # <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"           # <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"               # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "intel"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "82865G Integrated Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes    "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

i cant figure out what is wrong wit the config file, so thinkin it might be something else. is there anything else that can cause this issue??

thanks

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2010-05-03 15:09:16)

combuster · 2010-05-02 21:48:34

Do you have testing enabled, xserver 1.7 or 1.8 ? If it's 1.7 backup and delete your xorg.conf and then try again without it, xserver 1.7 should set the propper resolution automatically.

karol · 2010-05-02 22:08:53

What driver?
If vesa you probably won't get the native resolution.
If intel you will get the correct resolution, but I think it will work w/o freezing / crashing only w/ intel-legacy (and not intel) which in turn doesn't work w/ recent xorg-server.
Of course YMMV.

grey · 2010-05-02 23:16:10

I have/had a similar problem, also with an intel driver, but a more recent chipset (945). The root cause is that my monitor doesn't send the correct EDID information. The only way to fix that - in any linux distro - is to add a modeline to the xorg.conf file. However, my xorg.conf file only needs the "ServerLayout", "Monitor" and "Screen" sections.

What does xrandr say?

Misfit138 · 2010-05-03 00:14:02

Make sure and force 24 bit as default depth..

demian · 2010-05-03 09:59:54

Why not just drop the use of xorg.conf and use xf86-input-evdev instead?

ninjaprawn · 2010-05-03 11:12:12

grey wrote:

I have/had a similar problem, also with an intel driver, but a more recent chipset (945). The root cause is that my monitor doesn't send the correct EDID information. The only way to fix that - in any linux distro - is to add a modeline to the xorg.conf file. However, my xorg.conf file only needs the "ServerLayout", "Monitor" and "Screen" sections.
What does xrandr say?

output from xrandr; (never ever used/seen this in 4 year on linux!!)

[media@ArchMedia ~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
   1024x768       60.0*+   75.1     70.1  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
[media@ArchMedia ~]$

karol · 2010-05-03 11:17:12

And what driver are you using?

Did you remove / comment out this part, as Misfit138 suggested?

    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes    "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection

And change

        Depth     24

DefaultDepth 24

ninjaprawn · 2010-05-03 11:27:20

karol wrote:

And what driver are you using?
Did you remove / comment out this part, as Misfit138 suggested?
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes    "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
And change
        Depth     24
DefaultDepth 24

just trying that now

just worked through the xrandr idea,

 
cvt 1280 1024
xrandr --newmode "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 1280x1024_60.00
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024_60.00

and my monitor, which is about 2 years old and a 15"LCD display, kicked out sayin it cant display the video resolution

ninjaprawn · 2010-05-03 11:32:55

ok, tried removing the whole section that contained the Depth 16, and replaced
Depth 24
with
DefaultDepth 24
and X wouldn't start!!

karol · 2010-05-03 11:33:35

Let me ask for the third and last time: maybe I'm missing sth, but I don't think you shared with us, what driver are you using with your Intel graphics card.
'pacman -Qqs xf86-video'

Did you try to run w/o xorg.conf as combuster suggested?

Edit: typos.

Last edited by karol (2010-05-03 11:35:58)

ninjaprawn · 2010-05-03 11:51:39

karol wrote:

Let me ask for the third and last time: maybe I'm missing sth, but I don't think you shared with us, what driver are you using with your Intel graphics card.
'pacman -Qqs xf86-video'
Did you try to run w/o xorg.conf as combuster suggested?
Edit: typos.

Sorry, missed this one.

[root@ArchMedia media]# pacman -Qqs xf86-video
xf86-video-intel
[root@ArchMedia media]#

and yes, i have just successfully started x without an xorg.conf file. after this, my xrandr output is ;

[media@ArchMedia ~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
   1024x768       60.0*+   75.1     70.1  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
[media@ArchMedia ~]$

karol · 2010-05-03 11:56:37

Can you install xf86-video-vesa?

grey · 2010-05-03 12:48:26

ninjaprawn wrote:

just worked through the xrandr idea [...] and my monitor, which is about 2 years old and a 15"LCD display, kicked out sayin it cant display the video resolution

That's not a good sign. Is there anything in Xorg.log about trying different resolutions?

lagagnon · 2010-05-03 13:53:20

ninjaprawn: are you trying to get better than 1024x768 resolution with an old 15" LCD monitor? Some of them may NOT get to 1280x1024. Check the manual for that monitor. Also, I had a similar situation with an Intel graphics chip and a very old first generation 19" LCD monitor - I could not get 1280x1024. What I did was force the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with the monitor's Horizontal Sync and Vertical Refresh parameters and that worked for me. You again need to check the monitor's manual for those details then do someting like this:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Hansol"
    ModelName    "H950"
    HorizSync    45.6
    VertRefresh  79.9
EndSection

and replace the hsync and vertrefresh numbers with the values required to get the res you want.

karol · 2010-05-03 13:56:53

@lagagnon
It's not old - it's "about 2 years old and a 15"LCD display".

ninjaprawn · 2010-05-03 14:27:04

gonna try the vesa drivers in a bit, but so you can see what i am using, google "E153FPf". That is my monitor model, but I cant find any thing about resolutions on the web, just lots of other info. Just noticed, it is a june 2005 monitor, so 5 years old, not 2, sorry

karol · 2010-05-03 14:29:17

I found it a bit strange you got a 15" LCD in 2007/8, but I didn't want to argue.

Edit: http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs … 03441.html

Last edited by karol (2010-05-03 14:31:02)

.:B:. · 2010-05-03 14:30:46

I haven't found a single 15" LCD monitor that can do more than 1024x768. Are you sure your hardware even supports it? Did you check your monitor's specs? Its documentation?

If you ask people to google it I suppose you don't have any documentation at all...

karol · 2010-05-03 14:35:34

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/514997

I am using a Dell E153FPf 15" lcd monitor and it is not being recognized, so it defaults to a very low resolution compared to the native resolution. 640 X 480 and 800 X 600. The native resolution is 1024 X 768 @ 60 Hz.

ninjaprawn · 2010-05-03 14:41:42

@.:B:.
yeah, no documentation at all sorry.

thanks karol and everyone for all the efforts. guessing its a rubbish monitor. doesn't look like any solution, so gonna b stuck with 1024x768

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