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Hello all,

I have installed Precise Puppy 5.4.1 onto my Eee PC and everything is excellent, except the screen.

I cannot set it to 800x480 which is the native size. I have 2 black bars on both sides. Is there a way to force 800x480?

Thank you,

Hello,
Have you tried the xorgwizard to change it from 640x480..
Have you set the correct driver for your (make? model?) vid card?
Are you in xorg or xvera?

puppyluvr wrote: Hello,
Have you tried the xorgwizard to change it from 640x480..
Have you set the correct driver for your (make? model?) vid card?
Are you in xorg or xvera?

I type 'xorgwizard' into the the console...

I launch the Puppy Video Wizard and I have tried both Probe and Vesa.

Each one goes from 640x480 to 800x600 and then to larger resolutions. I cannot select 800x480 in there.

Is there a way for me to force 800x480 somehow? I just did the auto install so perhaps it did not install the correct driver.. Can I download a new driver?


Sorry for the noob like questions!


*EDIT*

It is an Asus Eee PC 2G Surf.. the GPU is the Intel 915GM it says in Hardinfo

Hello,
In the wizard there is a "more" button for a full list...

I didn't see the more button! I will have to check that out! I will get back to you on that..

Thank you!

ok I loaded xorgwizard,

I tried the 3 options available to me..


Probe Choose vesa

going through each one I did not see the 'more' button

I also did not see my 800x480 anywhere..

I tried to alter the xorg.conf manually but for some some reason it seems to ignore the settings I am putting in..

More: Display more monitor resolutions to choose from.

puppyluvr wrote:

More: Display more monitor resolutions to choose from.

I will have to look for that, I dont recall seeing it on my install..

Thank you though!

Ok I have screenshots of what my xorgwizard looks like..




No matter what option I choose I end up with this:




Perhaps there is something wrong with my setup?

Hello,
OK, research indicates either a gma900 or nvidia card, IDK, guess it depends on model / country of origin etc...
Copy the following, open a terminal, click BOTH mouse buttons to paste it, and hit enter.
Attch the file it creates in /root to a post..

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /root/xorgconf.txt

puppyluvr wrote: Hello,
OK, research indicates either a gma900 or nvidia card, IDK, guess it depends on model / country of origin etc...
Copy the following, open a terminal, click BOTH mouse buttons to paste it, and hit enter.
Attch the file it creates in /root to a post..

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /root/xorgconf.txt

I will try this!

I did a hardware check and its definitely an intel gpu..

thank you for your patience..

Hello, OK then this will tell if it is loaded..
Same trick paste to a terminal...

lsmod > /root/lsmod.txt

oook here goes..

it said that .txt was not allowed.. so I changed the .txt to .zip..


You will have to simply change the extension back to .txt to view it, dont try to unzip it!

Hello,
I got an empty zip file...
Why is it a zip?
Just add a .gz to the name, thats (dot)gz
to fool the forum to let you upload it, like I did below...

@EDIT... LOL... got ya.. never mind....

Hello,
Your config seems to be missing "boardname" so I wonder which driver is loaded.

post the results of:


lsmod > /root/lsmod.txt

and well see what driver loaded, you want "Intel" in xorg not i810.

lsmod copied and attached

Hi. I have the same problem of not being able to set the monitor to 800x480 in the Eee pc. This worked fine in the Racy Puppy 5.2 but seems to be a problem in Slacko 5.4 and Precise 5.4.2. I am currently using Slacko 5.4.

Did you solve this problem?

I've tried on this netbook 4.3.1, 4.3.1 with KDE, Toutou 431, Lucid 5.2.8.005, Slacko 5.3.1 , Slacko 5.4.0, Puppeee 1.0, 3 Headed Dog 0.0.1.005, Lucid 525 with 4.3.1 kernel, and Saluki. They all work in 800x480, as long as you select x24 and not x16, which sometimes bugs.

5.3.1 and 5.2.8 need Pemasu's laptop acpi .pet, otherwise the battery monitor will give crazy readings. Better for 3 headed dog too, because it doesn't seem to have battery monitor on the panel.

Have not tried Precise. I have read that Exprimo also works, but have not tried it.

Regarding my earlier post, in Puppy 4.2 the xorgwizard discovered the 800x480 screen but not so in Slacko 5.4 and Precise 5.4.2.
Changing the resolution to 800x480 in xorg.conf by editing doesn't work:

Section "Monitor" #sectionmonitor0
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 31.5
VertRefresh 40-60
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
Option "PreferredMode" "800x480"
EndSection

and:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "metamodes" "640x480_60 +0+0" #METAMODES_0
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

There seems to be some function that I am not aware of.
Enclosed is a zip file with three org.conf from the original Xandros, Puppy4.2 and Slacko5.4.

If anyone could find a solution that would be greatly appreciated.

Works fine with Slacko 5.4 on my eeePC. Maybe I don't have the same model, mine is 4G. (edit: I think not the same, 4G=701)

But it doesn't start in graphic mode except after making a save file.

At first it starts in text mode, have to type in "xorgwizard" and enter, select 800x480x24, then type "xwin" and enter.