Comments on: WUXGA LCD stretch

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:52:31 +0000

Mike,
Thanks for sharing the experience. Thinking of getting a 15″ dell studio with WUXGA also plan to install linux on it. wondering if this max resolution issue is fixed in latest linux drivers.

-Vaibhav

By: Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:07:45 +0000

Kieran, I'm not sure how to tell. lshw is not very specific:

     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 03
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=agpgart-intel module=intel_agp
        *-display:0 UNCLAIMED
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: Display controller
             product: Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0

By: Kieran Huggins

Kieran Huggins — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:06:04 +0000

Hi Mike - Thanks for posting your experiences with using a WUXGA panel on your Intel 915 chip. I’ve been wanting to upgrade the panel in my z60m Ubuntu machine for a while now, but was worried when I saw that the Intel specs that seem to indicate that 1600×1200 was the highest supported LCD resolution:

http://tinyurl.com/6bra37 (Intel 915 specs)

Is your chip a 915GM?

Cheers,
Kieran

By: Mike Linksvayer » Ubuntu upgrades

Mike Linksvayer » Ubuntu upgrades — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:41:14 +0000

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By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:37:35 +0000

Alienware Area-51® m5750 laptop has custom option for
15.4″ UWXGA screen for total cost of $1200

By: Mike Linksvayer » Free software needs hardware entrepreneurs

Mike Linksvayer » Free software needs hardware entrepreneurs — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:10:50 +0000

[...] Update 20060926: In comments below Villa points out system76, which approaches what I want, excpet that their prices are mediocre and they don’t offer high resolution displays, which I will never do without again. David points out olpcnews.com, which looks like reasonable independent reporting on OLPC. I asked on the OLPC wiki about other manufacturers’ use of the design. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:44:59 +0000

Max, it looks like Dell no longer sells an Insprion (”home”/cheap) 15.4″ WUXGA notebook. The Latitude D820 is available with 15.4″ WUXGA.

By: Max Waterman

Max Waterman — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:26:48 +0000

So, where does one find a 1920×1200 ~15″ notebook these days? All the displays with that resolution seem to be at 17″ now, and I find that too big. The ~15″ displays (that I can find) are all lower resolution.

By: Jorge Kobeh

Jorge Kobeh — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 02:43:04 +0000

Mike:

I have the same machine as yours, but running Debian. I have used the 915resolution program, and have compiled the latest X.org distribution, but I can’t get my system to display 1920 pixels, it always displays 1600. Could you please send me your xorg.conf file, so that I can see if there is something wrong with mine?

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely, Jorge Kobeh

By: Brian Heung

Brian Heung — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:23:08 +0000

On my IBM Thinkpad T20, built into the hardware was a “stretching” algorithm that automatically stretched any resolution that was less that 1024×768 to use all the pixels on the screen. I was able to toggle that behavior in the BIOS.