Unable to get a high resolution

[steffie00]

Hello

I have a problem which drives me crazy, so if anyone could help me, please?

I use a Dell Laptop and the graphics card has been identified correctly with a resolution at 1440x900. Everything is fine here.

But I am unable to set the desktop resolution right. The highest resolution is here 1024X768 which makes everything on my desktop very very big and the fonts in Firefox looks awful.

This is what xrandr says:
SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
*0 1024 x 768 ( 306mm x 191mm ) *60
1 800 x 600 ( 306mm x 191mm ) 60
2 640 x 480 ( 306mm x 191mm ) 60

and the same in SAX2

My XORG.CONF says:
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection

Can anyone help? Thank you in advance
Steffen

[devils casper]

Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection

is it a complete Section Screen? Default Depth is 24 but Modes are listed under Depth 15 only. replace 15 with 24.

[steffie00]

Hello

Thank you for the reply, but my XOrG.CONF has that line already. It was just a bad example I listed.

My XoRG.CONF looks like this:

Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection


Can anyone still help me?

Thank you so much
Steffen

[devils casper]

which Graphics Card do you have? try "vesa" driver in Section Device "Video Card".

[juvan]

Do you by any chance have Intel 9xx graphics chip in your laptop. You may need to tweak the video bios with 915resolution utility. See Intel 915GM Graphics/Display for more info.