[Savage40] Thinkpad T23 and external monitor 1680x1050

[Alex Deucher]

--- Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have a Thinkpad T23 with SuSE linux 10.0. Does anybody know whether
> I 
> might be able to attach it to an external 20'' wide screen LCD with a
> 
> resolution of 1680x1050 and run it at the full native resolution of
> the 
> monitor? I don't need dual head, just the external monitor.
> 
> I know that the S3 savage card should theoretically deliver a maximal
> 
> resolution of 1600x1200 but what about 1680x1050?
> 
> I'm running xorg-x11-6.8.2 and savage-20050718.
> 

It won't work unless your bios contains support for the 1680x1050 mode
which it probably doesn't.  By default the savage driver uses the bios
to set modes.  There is some code to manually program the mode which
might work if the you've disabled the panel or booted with the lid
closed.  I have plans to add full non-bios mode setting support (and
even randr-1.2 support), but I don't know when I'll get to it.

Alex



       
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