Screen Resolution and Color Depth

[John A. Smith]

I have an Averatec 5110H laptop with a 15" XGA TFT monitor and Intel(R) 
82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller . The screen has a max resolution 
of 1024x768 @ 16 million colors.

With the default install of Fedora C1, I only get a resolution of 
640x480. However, I was able to get a 1024x768 resolution @ only 256 
colors after installing the intel dripkg*.rpm, running X -configure from 
the command line, and replacing /etc/X11/XF86config with the new config 
file. When I startx and try to change the preferences to 16 million 
colors, it says I have to log out and restart X. When I do it goes back 
to 640x480. I don't have a clue what I'm doing wrong. I had the same 
problem trying Mandrake on this machine and was hoping the FC1 would 
hold the answers to my problems. I've also tried installing the 
855patch*.rpm from http://projects.nudieman.com/500m/, but that didn't 
make any difference.

I know there must be others out there with the same problem. Has anyone 
out there encountered this and won?? My XF86config file is below, maybe 
someone can point out what I'm missing.

TIA for any help!

-j a s



Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "vnc"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "speedo"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"             # <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"           # <i>
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "i810"
    VendorName  "Intel Corp."
    BoardName   "852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Chipset Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection