[plug] laptop screen resolution in ubuntu

[Hendrik Strydom]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 19:17 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
> I have an old toshiba satellite 4090 (celeron 400, 128Mb ram, 6gb drive)
> that I have installed edubuntu 6.06 on because of its lower hardware
> demands.  Trouble is, I can't seem to get the screen resolutions I want
> - it tops out at 800x600 with a wide border all around.  
.. snip

You can switch between modes with Ctrl+Alt + keypad plus (often Fn +
whatever on a notebook, i.e a four button keypress).  xvidtune will
inform you as to the current screen parameters.
24 bit default is quite steep on older hardware - I suggest you try 16
bit or 15 if your hardware supports it, i.e. change DefaultDepth to 16.
Also erase the 1 and 4 bit sections.  

Regards
  Hendrik

> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
> 	Device		"Trident Microsystems Cyber 9525"
> 	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
> 	DefaultDepth	24
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		1
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		4
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		8
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		15
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		16
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		24
> 		Modes		"1024x768"
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier	"Default Layout"
> 	Screen		"Default Screen"
> 	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
> 	InputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
> 	InputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
> 	InputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
> 	InputDevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
> 	Mode	0666
> EndSection
> -----------------------------
> 
> TIA
> 
> Gavin
> 
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