daithi's | demesne :: 1400x1050 on a Latitude D505

[ Posted: Tuesday, March 8th 2005 at 5:43pm ]

[ Category: Computers ]

[ Author: daithi ]

Having installed Ubuntu Linux on a Dell Latitude D505 (which has an Intel 855GM graphics chipset), I was initially stuck with an everything-unfriendly 1024x768 resolution. 1280x1024 was managed by fiddling with the rather conservative settings in my XF86Config-4 file, which wasn't easy, given that supported Horizantal Sync values are near-impossible to find anywhere. (I say near-impossible, as I'm allowing for the fact that I just couldn't find them).

However, the 1400x1050 resolution that Dell's site claims my machine supports wasn't appearing. Apparently this is because the BIOS doesn't list it as an available resolution. Much Googling later, I came across 855resolution, a little program by Alain Poirier which, well, fixes it. Easily. Thanks Alain.

[ author: John Fallon ]

[ posted: 4:11pm on Friday, March 11th 2005 ]

You can download BIOS upgrades from the Dell website. It's free I think.

[ author: wysiwyg ]

[ posted: 1:15am on Saturday, March 12th 2005 ]

never mind about changing the res, what i want to know is how you got hooked up with a fancy laptop in the first place :) and one that cost less than my primitive brick no less - i think dell saw me coming!

also, congrats on the transition to webmake. it's nice to know that it's possible to steer away from the more traditional blogging software, not that an eejit like me would attempt it :) although i know what you mean about movable type...

[ author: Gareth < garethrichardknight /at/ yahoo /dot/ co /dot/ uk > ]

[ posted: 5:12pm on Friday, July 8th 2005 ]

Hey, sounds interesting. I'm trying to do the same thing.

Did you have any issues with the (Dell's internal) wireless setup?

Thanks!

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