[nmglug] Dell XPS M1210

[Beau J. Bechdol]

Thank you both Gary and Nick as well to all that have given me suggestions. 

I was looking at this:

>video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31A for 1280x1024 and rebooting.
>-Nick

I am not sure about this for the reason that the max res on my laptop is  1280x800 because it is a 12inch. I will give it a try though and see what happens and report back. 

Thanks again

>Beau J. Bechdol wrote:
>
>> Yes, I get that message before X starts. I was talking about console 
>resolution(before X starts). That makes me sad if it wont work :(
>
>So, Gary seems to know Ubuntu better than I (thanks Gary).  So, if 
>Ubuntu supports some of those console resolution modes, then it *should* 
>be simply a matter of editing your grub.conf and adding the following to 
>the end of the kernel argument line;
>
>video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31A
>
>for 1280x1024
>
>and rebooting.
>
>-Nick
>
>
>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:23:12AM -0700, Nick Frost wrote:
>>>> On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Beau J. Bechdol wrote:
>>> [..]
>>>> Though for the resolution you want, 1280x800, you'll want
>>>> something  other than 0x31A.  Unless I'm seriously confused (Gary,
>>>> am I  confused?), you cannot do 1280x800 as a console font.  Your
>>>> options are;
>>>>
>>>> 0x31A	(16 bits, 1280x1024)
>>>>
>>>> or;
>>>>
>>>> 0x163 	(16 bits 1152x800)
>>> I think you're right -- 1280x800 is not an option for the console.
>>>
>>>> or another resolution that is supported for framebuffer console fonts,  
>>>> of which a partial list may be found here;
>>>>
>>>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash
>>> A stock Ubuntu kernel does some of those modes out of the box.  I
>>> don't know how many, but I frequently use the 16 bit modes 0x314 and
>>> 0x317 in Ubuntu computers.
>>>
>>> I wasn't sure if Beau was talking about the console resolution
>>> (before X starts) or the resolution at the gdm or kdm or whatnot
>>> login screen (after X starts)...  I can't tell if he saw the error
>>> message he mentioned ('"Video mode not defined" or something to that
>>> affect') after passing a bad "vga=<something>" option to the kernel
>>> at boot time or by looking in the Xorg.0.log file after X started.
>>>
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>>> Gary Sandine <gars at laclinux.com>
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