xorg 7.2->7.3 update and i810/intel driver

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:16:32 +0100
> From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit at weinberg2.de>
> 
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:18:09 -0700
> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> wrote:
> 
> KO> > Now everything looks like it should on my monitor. I still don't
> KO> > understand where the connected LVDS comes from, though. Moreover,
> KO> > I would like to have a possibility to do this xrandr settings
> KO> > automatically when starting X. Any hints?
> 
> KO> Put the commands in .xinitrc? Or in your session config if your
> KO> setup supports it.
> 
> I'm using kdm for logon, and I would like to set the resolution right
> when kdm starts. I found /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc, but this
> seems to be an example that is not really executed. Maybe I'll find
> something in the docs for kdm (I have a faint remembrance that I knew
> all these things some years ago, but I tend to forget things I do not
> need frequently).

Sorry, but as a Gnome user, I have no idea how to configure this on
KDE. But you should be able to enter them in a terminal window and they
should work.

> KO> xrandr --addmode VGA2 1280x1024
> KO> xrandr --addmode VGA2 1024x768
> KO> xrandr --output VGA2 --mode 1280x1024
> 
> Hm, if this stuff finally works, I will have a try with 7.3 on my
> notebook. I never got it to work properly with beamers so far, because
> it always uses the display's resolution fot the external VGA port (and
> most beamers do not handle 1600x1050 that well :-).

Use xrandr to see what the available outputs are. They vary from card to
card. Good luck!
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