Low screen resolution: Intel

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Low screen resolution: Intel

#1 Post by samo21 »

Hi all,

So this is my first time running Puppy Linux, and I happen to be severly noobish at linux in general, so sorry if this is painful.

When I booted up Puppy Linux i gave me the option of resolutions. The only resolution it offered me with true colors was 640x480 or so. I'd ideally like to be using atleast 1024x768 in true color, or maybe even high color i'll settle for. Is this even possible? I've searched all over the forum, but couldn't find anything that seemed to solve the issue. I guess i'd need a somewhat simple, or simply described solution, because i'm new to all this. Any help you can give will be much appreciated! Thanks.

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#2 Post by Bruce B »

My tendency is to think it might have something to do with the amount of RAM on your video adapter. So, how video RAM much to you have?

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#3 Post by samo21 »

Well I got this from the dell site.

Integrated Intel

Bruce B

#4 Post by Bruce B »

You might be working on 1 MB legacy vesa support

Read this, maybe it will help

http://64.143.3.64/downloads/drivers/84 ... /linux.htm

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#5 Post by rarsa »

[quote]Integrated Intel

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Rasa: Thanks. Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Bruce: That link certaintly looks like it may have what I want, but I can't make sense of most of it. Like I said, I'm pretty new at all this. So how exactly do you think i could implement what is on there?

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#7 Post by Guest »

The best solution for the intel chipset's is to shoe horn XFree86 into puppy and use the drivers (modules) to suit.

That's how I have gotten a laptop with a Neomagic chipset and a desktop with an i810 chipset to work.

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#8 Post by rarsa »

Finally:

OK, I am working at 1280x1024x16 @ 60 Hz.

I have an intel 845G based mother board.

I followed Bruce B sugested link. It gave me the clue. Here is what I did:

1. When booting up the computer press F2 to go to the BIOS.
2. Go to the advanced menu and select Video
3. Select a framebuffer size of 8MB
4. Save and boot with puppy.
5. When puppy starts, execute the Vesa setup wizard again, You should have many more options.

Actually I did something else but I don't think that it will affect the desktop resolution. This is a HDD installation, so I am using GRUB to boot to puppy

On the grub configuration file I added the vga parameter to the kernel command:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda11 vga=791

I hope this helps

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#9 Post by samo21 »

Well, I followed your instructions and it didn't seem to change anything. It ran in 1024x768 but still in low color. I went into xvesa and there was the same amount of settings. I was really hoping that that would have done it. Proabably the only simple fix there could have been :-p

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#10 Post by rarsa »

That's sad.

I'll check to see if I did something else I don't remember.

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#11 Post by pakt »

[quote="samo21"]Well I got this from the dell site.

Integrated Intel

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#12 Post by MU »

You also could be my test-Carniggle for my Xorg-dotpup ;)

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2303

It is 35 MB extracted, but you could delete all modules not needed to save space.

Mark

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MU wrote:You also could be my test-Carniggle for my Xorg-dotpup ;)
Very nice, Mark! I'll be glad to test your package myself. (test-Carniggle?? haven't heard that one before...)

I'm downloading it right now (I'm on a slow dial-up, so it takes a while :roll: )

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#14 Post by MU »

>test-Carniggle

in Germany we call someone "Test-Karnickel" who has to test something new to find out errors, the developer might not have seen.
I don't know if Carniggle is the correct translation, it is this small animal with the long ears (Bugs Bunny?)

I hope it will work without problems.
If you have problems with it, just ask, though i might reply late, as I'm going asleep soon.

Mark

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#15 Post by rarsa »

Oh, you mean a Ginea pig. That is the correct semantic translation.

Direct thranslations are sometimes funny. The direct translation for the term in spanish would be 'India's rabbits'

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#16 Post by MU »

oh, thanks rarsa.

We say "test-Bunny" because these animals are taken in real experiments, e.g. to test medicaments or kosmetika.

greets, Mark

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#17 Post by whabang »

The Intel gfx-chipsets all use UMA. You can set it to use an 8 meg framebuffer, or you can use a PCI-graphics card instead.

My Dimension 2400 is equipped with a PCI Radeon 9200 with 128 Mb RAM on it. That works much better anyway, and also gives you the option to play more recent games, should you want to.

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