Acer Aspire One 751 +1366x768 resolution Topic is solved

[viking60]

My wife has this Acer Aspire One (751h) with no CD only USB ports. It came with XP so naturally I installed Linux instead. My problem was that the screen needs 1366x768 resolution and the only distro I was able to fix it with was Ubuntu 9.04. Now this is not supported anymore and later versions do not support it. And she does not want a different look (Gnome). https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne/AO751h I had a go with Arch but I could not get the resolution right. Does anyone have a tip what distro to install? The 1366x768 is a must! Is there a distro that can handle this out of the box -can Mandriva? Edit: Going to try Mandriva with Mandriva seed.... It is supposed to be able to handle the polusbo drivers....

[viking60]

This is as close as I have come:
http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/linux/1 ... driva.html
i have it working but not with 1366x768 yet....
Looks like Xorg has stopped supporting the poulsbo driver so it will only work with old versions. Ahrg
Oh well don't buy Acer Aspire One 751h

[dedanna1029]

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... e-one-751/

Don't get frustrated... you are wrestling with arguably the least Linux-friendly graphics card on the planet; it is not an easy task.

It also appears that every distro you come across, people are having issues with it.

[viking60]

Yes I know that one is bad. Although Mandriva did autoinstall the drivers and gave me a fairly decent 1024x768 solution.
I am now trying Arch sine a visit on the Gentoo page pointed me to this: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15486
So I must try it of course
I had it working perfectly fine with Ubuntu 9.04 but the support has stopped

[viking60]

AH EUREKA!!
I installed arch and installed this from AUR.
Then I "followed" this readme
I listed the possible resolutions on the lap with

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sudo 915resolution -l


And got:

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Intel 800/900 Series VBIOS Hack : version 0.5.3

Chipset: 500GMA
BIOS: TYPE 1
Mode Table Offset: $C0000 + $269
Mode Table Entries: 36

Mode 30 : 640x480, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 32 : 800x600, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 34 : 1024x768, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 38 : 1366x768, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 3a : 1600x1200, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 3c : 1920x1440, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 41 : 640x480, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 43 : 800x600, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 45 : 1024x768, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 49 : 1280x770, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 4b : 1600x1200, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 4d : 1920x1440, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 50 : 640x480, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 52 : 800x600, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 54 : 1024x768, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 58 : 1366x768, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 5a : 1600x1200, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 5c : 1920x1440, 32 bits/pixel


I then set the resolution in table 49 to 1366x768 because I do not need 1280x770 anyway:

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sudo 915resolution 49 1366 768

and I now had:

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Intel 800/900 Series VBIOS Hack : version 0.5.3

Chipset: 500GMA
BIOS: TYPE 1
Mode Table Offset: $C0000 + $269
Mode Table Entries: 36

Mode 30 : 640x480, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 32 : 800x600, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 34 : 1024x768, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 38 : 1366x768, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 3a : 1600x1200, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 3c : 1920x1440, 8 bits/pixel
Mode 41 : 640x480, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 43 : 800x600, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 45 : 1024x768, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 49 : 1366x768, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 4b : 1600x1200, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 4d : 1920x1440, 16 bits/pixel
Mode 50 : 640x480, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 52 : 800x600, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 54 : 1024x768, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 58 : 1366x768, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 5a : 1600x1200, 32 bits/pixel
Mode 5c : 1920x1440, 32 bits/pixel

Take a close look at Mode 49!
I restarted X and it worked!
The problem now of course was to make it happen everytime because the resolutions is reset on every boot - what to do?
I put a line in /etc/rc.local
I needed to write the solution to the Bios before x started:

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usr/sbin/915resolution 49 1366 768


Booted.... et Voila EUREKA!

[dedanna1029]

Nice. That's the thing about Linux - always more than one way to skin a cat so to speak.

[viking60]

Yes But this was a tough one to skin I agree with the former who said this is one of the worst cards. The Irony of it is that it is small and has limmited capabilities so it is perfect for Linux. I smell MS intervention here. But that makes my day even brighter now
EDIT:
And that thing is faster than ever now - Great stuff