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• Bill Williams

  

  • 3 posts
   

  May 4, 2012 5:12 PM PDT

  First post after first ever install of WattOS.

   

  For me personally, out of the box (well off of the dvd) everything worked great, unlike some other Linux OS's. Video, sound etc etc everything is just great.

   

  The only slight blot is that I cannot seem to fill my screen with any of the integrated WattOS resolutions, currently I am using 1400x1050 as it fits the best of those available. With this resolution I get full top to bottom of screen OK but the width has a band approximatley 1 inch wide all the way down the right hand side.The band has a thick black edge and the rest is filled with vertical lines.

   

  Computer specs as follows -

   

  All in one PC - Sony Vaio VGC-JS1E

  Intel Core 2 Duo

  3.00GB ram

  Graphics chipset - Intel GMA X4500HD

  Resolution - 1680 x 1050

  Screen - 20.1 inch

   

  Any advice or even a fix ;-) would be much appreciated.

   

  UPDATE

   

  The following morning when I turned my computer on, the resolution 1400x1050 did not behave the same, I have had to now change it to 1600x1024 to see and use the base toolbar, although this is now not level with the computer screen lower edge. It is about 3/4 of an inch tall. There is also still the 1 inch panel to the right as mentioned in my original post above.

  
  This post was edited by Bill Williams at May 5, 2012 5:27 AM PDT
• Bill Williams

  

  • 3 posts
   

  May 5, 2012 9:38 AM PDT

  Also, here is the result of my "sudo lshw -C display" search for further info
  
  *-display:0
  description: VGA compatible controller
  product: 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
  vendor: Intel Corporation
  physical id: 2
  bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
  version: 03
  width: 64 bits
  clock: 33MHz
  capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
  configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
  resources: irq:42 memory:fe400000-fe7fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:ec00(size=8)
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
  description: Display controller
  product: 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
  vendor: Intel Corporation
  physical id: 2.1
  bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
  version: 03
  width: 64 bits
  clock: 33MHz
  capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
  configuration: latency=0
  resources: memory:fe800000-fe8fffff
  
• biff baxter

  

  • 464 posts
   

  May 5, 2012 12:47 PM PDT

  Thanks Bill...I will look into this a bit - I dont have that chipset to test...Did you try to fire up Jockey to see  if there are any proprietary drivers available which would likely solve your resolution problem?

   

  Located under "Preferences - additional drivers" and let it scan your system....

   

  If not, Intel has a site. I believe that is called the "Q45 express chipset"

   

  http://intellinuxgraphics.org/

   

  tks...biff

• Bill Williams

  

  • 3 posts
   

  May 5, 2012 1:28 PM PDT

  Tks biff.
  
  I have run the tool and are no additional drivers available.
  
  If anything turns up I will report back here