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Problems with Intel Arrandale and Scren Resolution

Asked by Rayston on 2010-02-07

I have a brand new Acer Aspire 5740-5513 and I installed Ubuntu 9.10 and the first thing I am having an issue with is that I cannot set the resolution above 800 x 600. I should be able to set it to 1388 x 768.

Here is my xorg.conf is

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

when I run lspci I get

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Arrandale Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)

when I run

lspci -v -s 00:02.0

I get the following

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Arrandale Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
 Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 033e
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
 Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
 Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: i915
 Kernel modules: i915

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Rayston (rayston) said : #1

here is the info from xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   800x600 61.0*
   640x480 60.0

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #2

run:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

change:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "vesa"
EndSection

to

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "intel"
EndSection

Save the new file and reboot, if you don't get a display, reboot to recovery root mode (select recovery mode in grub then select root). You can then use nano to edit the file back:

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Change the file then press: CTRL+X, Y, ENTER

Then reboot.

I also found this which may help:
http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1397534

Rayston (rayston) said : #3

Nope did not work.

Changed the xorg.conf as advised and just made it so I could not boot at all.

I have also tried adding xorg.edgers stuff here

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

but that does not seem to help either.

I have tried creating a modeline with gft like thus

cvt 1366 768

and get

"1368x768_60.00" 85.86 1368 1440 1584 1800 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync

I add that to xrandr like thus

xrandr --newmode "1368x768_60.00" 85.86 1368 1440 1584 1800 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync

and get this error

X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
  Major opcode of failed request: 149 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (RRCreateMode)
  Serial number of failed request: 18
  Current serial number in output stream: 18

Rayston (rayston) said : #4

Update, I was able to add that Modeline

and now that modeline is in xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 800 x 600, maximum 1368 x 768
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   800x600 61.0*
   640x480 60.0
   1368x768_60.00 59.9

but when I try to use it I get this

xrandr --output default --mode 1368x768_60.00
xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed

Rayston (rayston) said : #5

I followed the advice in this thread.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8795412#post8795412

and that fixed my issue.