linux-dell-laptops : Message: Re: [linux-dell-laptops] Inspiron 8000+Ubuntu 8.04 and later

Alex,

I'm wondering how things are with your display now. After a lot of searching and fussing, including one complete re-installation, I finally have my graphics set on something besides 800x600.

You're aware, aren't you, that you can fix the folded screen by hitting Fn F7 twice?

The ATI Mobility M4 was developed for a 17" monitor, so it needs to be switched to work on a smaller monitor.

As far as the 800x600 safe mode graphics are concerned, I copied someone else's xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) made a couple of small changes (his was an M3 with AGP2 or 3, and it was apparently in a PCI slot - while mine is in an AGP slot). I changed the name of my xorg.conf to xorg.conf-old and copied the new xorg.conf to the X11 directory and rebooted. I now have my choice of 1280x1024 or 1024x768 resolution, and one assumes, 24 bit color, though I don't know how to verify that. I also don't know if I have hardware acceleration, or not.

It's still klunky. After all, my monitor has a standard resolution of 1600x1200, and 1280x1024 is the best I've gotten in Linux so far, and in Windows I get 32 bit color, while 24 bit is the best you can get from the open source linux drivers. Oh well, still beats being a slave to Microsoft's destructive marketing practices, I guess, and really 1280 x 1024 is already a bit too small to comfortably read.

See ya'!

--- On Sun, 11/16/08, Tessier Alexandre <Alexandre.Tessier@...> wrote:

From: Tessier Alexandre <Alexandre.Tessier@...>
Subject: Re: [linux-dell-laptops] Inspiron 8000+Ubuntu 8.04 and later
To: linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 2:25 AM

I remember I had a similar problem with an old Latitude C800 with nvidia 
geforce (2 or 4?). The display was 1400x1050 (I think this is the 
problem). I do not remember exactly how I fixed the bug. I think that I 
installed the nvidia driver, I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and everything 
worked.
I suggest:
- you install ubuntu;
- you install the ATI driver;
- you edit xorg.conf;
- you restart X11.

Alex.

sanktepernr2 a �crit :
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Dell Inspiron 8000 with ATI Mobility M4 graphics!
> Iam a tester who want to be a user of linux and I have chosen Ubuntu
> to be my distro at the moment.
> 
> Since this is an very old laptop I first thought linux would just work
> on it and then I thought that maybe it is easier to find newer laptops
> that work since manufacturers nowadays put more effort into making
> linux work on Dell
 machines.
> 
> Anyway I've tried to get Ubuntu up and running on my Dell Inspiron
> 8000 machine.
> Sadly to say both Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 have problems\bugs with the Ati
> Mobility M4 discrete graphics cards and the touchpad isn't working
> either. I've filed a bug in launchpad and we're trying to see if
there
> is a coresponding bug in the X.org bugzilla\tracker but no exact match
> have been decided upon.
> 
> If anyone knows of this problem and how to solv it or wants to help
> fix\triage the bug you can find it here: 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247771 
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247771>
> 
> There are ATI RPM packages on the Dell support site but if those are
> in ubuntu or not I don't know. The corrupted screen can be mittigated
> by connecting an external display though this only brings a correct
> picture on the
 internal laptop display and doesn't recognize the
> external display witch in my case is an Samsung Syncmaster 213T.
> 
> Iam glad for all the hlep I can get since this is stopping me from
> migrating to linux!
> 
> Thansk for YOUR help!
> 
> 


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