Laptops :: screen resolution problem

Hmmmmmmm......

I see the 310 uses the C&T chipset rather than the WD one, but it still has the dual scan monitor. It may be that the chipset is not fully vesa compatible & so doesn't work with Linux properly. There are some reoprts on the net elsewhere of people using SciTechh's Display Doctor in DOS (http://www.3dgamers.com/utils/) to set the framebuffer mode & then use Loadlin to start linux from DOS. I can't really see how this is supposed to work as it relies on a DOS TSR (terminate & stay resident). When Linux is booted it will overwrite all the DOS TSR's anyway. Display Doctor is worth getting to check out whether your system supports framebuffers & what vesa version the BIOS has, though getting them working under linux can be a long, frustrating job with (in my experience) often no positive outcome.

On your system XFREE will use up a lot of RAM, though with the new mods to recent versions of DSL to use some of the swap as ramdisk you may have more success, but it won't be as fast as using the xvesa or xfbdev drivers.

Good Luck!

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