Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on IBM Thinkpad R30: Screen Resolution Problem (1024x768)
I just got my old IBM Thinkpad R30 back and I thought installing Ubuntu on it could be useful. So I downloaded the Desktop Edition Live-Install-CD thing and booted into the live system.
Disappointedly I discovered that the latest Ubuntu seems to have problems configuring the right resolution. The system would only let me choose 800×600 as a maximum but the display is capable of 1024×768. So I started searching the web and found descriptions of a bug. Still, all this seemed a little overdosed to me and searching around a little more I found another thread where a guy describes the problem of Xorg detecting the right display refresh rates.
So I figured out that I wouldn’t need all this xorg.conf stuff except the refresh rates and changed my original xorg.conf to look like this:
Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" Option "DPMS" HorizSync 28-49 VertRefresh 43-72 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" Device "Configured Video Device" EndSection
The only lines I added are bold. And after I restarted X with [CTRL][ALT][DEL] I got the wanted resolution. Btw it is a Trident graphics chip but /var/log/Xorg.0.log showed that it is detected just fine.
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