Display problems with mandrake 10.0

avatar527 · 10-27-2004, 12:32 PM

Hello

I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my dell. I have a graphics card on my motherboard though i don't have any documentation as to what kind it is.

The problem I am having is that no matter what i set my resolution to it is only displaying 640X480 of the screen. I know the graphics card supports higher resolution because I run windows at 1600X1200 on this machine.

any help would be very appreciated. thanks

~steve

Lakota · 10-27-2004, 01:24 PM

Since you said you already have Windows installed, go into your windows device manager and it should be listed under graphics adapter as to what your video card is, since it is working . If you still have your original documentation from Dell, it will be listed there to. I believe going to Dell's website and logging in to driver download section using your Dell service tag number also shows a list of original hardware that came with the computer.

avatar527 · 10-27-2004, 04:03 PM

The graphics card on the motherboard is am Intel 865. I have that selected as my video card and it still is having the same problems

Boyer · 10-27-2004, 06:25 PM

It's most likely the monitor settings in your Xconfig. Try setting up a custom monitor with the settings you believe your monitor can do.

opjose · 10-28-2004, 11:06 AM

No, the problem is that since Linux does not directly support this imbedded and braindead graphics chip in Xorg, it has reverted to using the Framebuffer driver which is suboptimal.

XFree seems to work fine with it (abysmal 3D though), but 10.1 uses Xorg not Xfree.

Intel has an Xorg driver posted on their web site, but good luck with it.

You are better off installing a dedicated graphics card.