Comments on: Widescreen Resolutions for Intel Display Cards In Ubuntu Feisty

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:50:16 +0000

It seems to finally work in 10.04 as of Alpha-2 for me. Perhaps I had the option prior to 10.04 but I had not noticed the “mirror option” before. Now I can control both monitors independently through the Display option via software rather than try my luck at the shortcut keys through the hardware and hope for the best.

By: Martin Paucula

Martin Paucula — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:11:45 +0000

I have manually added new resolution 1920×1080 for my widescreen lcd and it worked, but the resolution is not permanent and is lost after reboot.

sudo xrandr --newmode 1920×1080 220.75 1920 2064 2264 2608 1080 1083 1088 1130 -hsync +vsync
sudo xrandr --addmode VGA1 1920×1080

By: Vincent Wagner

Vincent Wagner — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:54:14 +0000

915resolution worked for me as well at 60 Hz. I have no display problems on a Gateway MX8738 widescreen laptop running three operating systems Ubuntu, Vista and XP Professional.

By: Gerardo

Gerardo — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:06:45 +0000

I’m using 915resolution to setup the widescreen mode in my laptop, but i have trouble setting different refresh rates for the external VGA output. I have tested the xorg-video-intel driver, but when i set a lower screen resolution, the Xserver is restarted by itself and the screen geometry remains the same.

By: Pepe Gonzalez

Pepe Gonzalez — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:40:52 +0000

The new Intel driver is still in experimental state. I tried it before, and it did not work. I recommend installing 915resolution instead. From the 915resolution site:

915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900 series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 830, 845G, 855G, and 865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, 945G, 946GZ, G965, and Q965 chipsets. This modification is neccessary to allow the display of certain graphics resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server.

Do a simple
sudo aptitude install 915resolution
restart, and it should be working. If it doesn’t, you can check the 915resolution site for help (you might have to edit xorg.conf): http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/