Forcing LCD resolution - where's the love?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:35:30PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> I'm currently suffering with a DVI connected 1600x1200 LCD that Xorg
> (6.9/7.0) only refuses to run at 1280x1024.
> 
> The error is:
> 'Mode "XXXXxYYYY" is larger than BIOS programmed panel size
> 
> I am not alone with this problem. There are other people with 1680x1050
> LCDs that Xorg will only run at 720x400 (egad!).
> 
> Yesterday, Bing Ho sent a message to this list "Cannot set resolution
> 1680x1050 for Intel 915".
> 
> This bug has been reported many times in lots of different bug trackers,
> for example:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4314
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162011
> 
> Apparently the binary Nvidia drivers have an option you can set to
> ignore the BIOS programmed panel size.
> 
> Ideally Xorg could have such an option (and be able to use it with all
> Xorg shipped drivers).
> 
> I'm sure myself and other Xorg users would really appreciate any
> developer love that could be applied towards this bug.

I had this problem with the little teeny Sony subnote that's out right
now, with an i815 (I think) chip; someone (and I can go track down
who if it will help, but I think it's in the list archive) pointed me
to his custom driver, which fixed the problem (in my case, it was the
wide-screeeniness).

Cheers,
-- jra
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