[NTLUG:Discuss] i810 - stuck on 1152x768 [Slackware]

[Stuart Johnston]

terry wrote:
> I have fresh install of Slackware 12.0 on a Compaq Presario w/celeron
> 2.7Gprocessor. The display adapter is "Intel Corporation 82845G/GL"
> and am
> running video driver "i810".
> It works but xorg is stuck on 1152x768 and cannot budge from it;  Although I
> have no "1152x768" setting in xorg.conf
> My monitor is not designed for 1152x768 and really needs a conventional
> pixel size of 1024x768 or 800x600  (all images are too narrow).

The i810 video resolutions can be a little funky.  You need a special 
program for setting the resolution in the bios.  Something like:

http://perso.orange.fr/apoirier/