[Intrepid] 800x600 maximum resolution on Toshiba Satellite S1800-921

[Carl Hetherington]

My laptop (Toshiba Satellite S1800-921) has a 1024x768 screen. On Hardy this was auto-detected fine and the full resolution was used.

On Intrepid (updated as of today) I get 800x600, and this is the highest resolution offered by the screen resolution preferences dialogue.

Let me know if there is any more information I can provide.

carl@shankly:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   800x600 60.0* 56.0
   640x480 60.0
   400x300 60.0 56.0
   320x240 60.0
carl@shankly:~$ sudo ddcprobe

vbe: VESA 2.0 detected.
oem: Trident CYBER 8820
memory: 16384kb
mode: 1280x1024x16m
mode: 1280x1024x64k
mode: 1280x1024x32k
mode: 1024x768x16m
mode: 1280x1024x256
mode: 640x480x16m
mode: 800x600x16m
mode: 1024x768x32k
mode: 1024x768x64k
mode: 800x600x32k
mode: 800x600x64k
mode: 640x480x32k
mode: 640x480x64k
mode: 1024x768x256
mode: 1280x1024x16
mode: 320x200x32k
mode: 320x200x64k
mode: 320x200x16m
mode: 640x400x256
mode: 640x480x256
mode: 800x600x256
mode: 1024x768x16
mode: 132x25 (text)
mode: 132x43 (text)
mode: 132x60 (text)
mode: 80x60 (text)
mode: 800x600x16
edid:
edid: 1 3
id: 5082
eisa: TOS5082
serial: 00000000
manufacture: 0 1990
input: analog signal.
screensize: 29 22
gamma: 1.000000
dpms: RGB, no active off, suspend, standby
timing: 720x400@70 Hz (VGA 640x400, IBM)
timing: 640x480@75 Hz (VESA)
timing: 800x600@72 Hz (VESA)
timing: 1024x768@87 Hz Interlaced (8514A)
ctiming: 1280x1024@60
ctiming: 1600x1200@60
dtiming: 1024x768@74
monitorname: TOSHIBA Inte
monitorname: rnal Panel
monitorname:

carl@shankly:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1644/M1644T Northbridge+Trident (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0d)
00:11.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
00:11.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi cth-carlh,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[Carl Hetherington (cth-carlh)]

Hi Bryce

Attachments added as requested. I haven't modified xorg.conf.

[JasonSpradlin82 (jaspradlin)]

I also have a Toshiba Laptop and had to update xorg.conf to get it to work... I found the suggested settings here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=963288

Here is another Toshiba Laptop user with the same problem with Intrepid and Screen Resolution:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=964212

[Carl Hetherington (cth-carlh)]

Hi Jason

Thanks for the pointers! That thread did indeed fix it for me; I changed my xorg.conf to:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-64
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

and now I can get 1024x768. Thanks!

So I guess the bug now is just that this should have been auto-setup for me, rather than me having to fiddle with xorg.conf.

[JasonSpradlin82 (jaspradlin)]

Agreed... I was lucky to have found that other post... This needs to be looked at

[Genti L (webmaster-setupmypage)]

Duplicate of Bug #185440?
Can we merge them?

[Philipp Sprunger (pspr)]

Worked for me!

[tcsp (tcspwa)]

check Bug #239722

[Carl Hetherington (cth-carlh)]

This laptop has now died, so I can no longer help with this bug! Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-trident (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]