1600x1200 with knoppix34

[booty]

I have a dell 5150 with a uxga screen (1600x1200) and a 64MB DDR NVIDIA® GeForce? FX Go5200 AGP 4x Graphics card.

If don't use any cheat codes then it loads as standard XGA (1024x768) and that is as high as it will let me configure in kde.

If I do use the cheat code screen=1600x1200 the screen is unviewable once xwindows launches. I think some of you know the screen I'm talking about a bunch of lines, everything is screwed up, there are 5 instances of the mouse, generally just scary sight to behold!

So please advise me on my next steps

Booty

my lspci:



knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration Process Registers (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 855GME GMCH Host-to-AGP Bridge (Virtual PCI-to-PCI) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-dfffffff
Expansion ROM at 0000c000 [disabled] [size=4K]

0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at bf40 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at bf20 [size=32]

0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at f4fffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: f6000000-fbffffff

0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
Memory at 28000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at b800
I/O ports at bc40 [size=64]
Memory at f4fff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at f4fff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4d64
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at b400
I/O ports at b080 [size=128]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
Memory at faffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
Memory at 28001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 28400000-287ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 28800000-28bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at faffd800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at faff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

[Stephen]

I have a dell 5150 with a uxga screen (1600x1200) and a 64MB DDR NVIDIA® GeForce? FX Go5200 AGP 4x Graphics card.

If don't use any cheat codes then it loads as standard XGA (1024x768) and that is as high as it will let me configure in kde.

If I do use the cheat code screen=1600x1200 the screen is unviewable once xwindows launches. I think some of you know the screen I'm talking about a bunch of lines, everything is screwed up, there are 5 instances of the mouse, generally just scary sight to behold!


That looks like it is not getting the refresh rate correct try using knoppix screen=1600x1200 xvrefresh=60 and you may want to add vga=normal to the end of the line as well.

[booty]

Stephen thanks for the quick reply, and I though for sure that would fix it when I read it! It unfortunately does the same thing even with xvrefresh=60. When I add vga=normal it is even worse as the screen is not only all crazy messed up, but it is all RGB in big blocks.

So round two what is the next suggestion? Anybody?

thanks for all of the great help,
booty

[user unknown]

At linux-laptops http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
I found this link:

http://www.lexip.ch/files/inspiron5150.html#2

[booty]

The link you gave me deals with the other card that 5150's have an ATI card instead of an nvidia. There was another linux tut on there with my card, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Will I need to remaster knoppix to get my screen resolution working or is there an internal fix I can use?

[user unknown]

I didn't remaster any knoppix myself, nor do I use any of these cards - I just know this laptop-page.

Perhaps someone else may introduce you.

[booty]

Any other helpful suggestions? Anybody?