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JarrettBillingsley:
I have a tablet PC with an 82855/852 GM/GME
That DTD Calculator didn't find any useful registry keys before I started makes me wonder if my drivers even use them. I'm currently running 6.14.10.4497, which are, as far as I know, the newest drivers for my hardware.
I just want to output 1680x1050. Is that too much to ask of Mr. Graphics Card?
If you read the first couple of sentences here:
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/Wiki/Graphics/239.htm
"work with G35, G33, G31, G965, GM965, 945G/GM, and 915G/GM chipsets which use the 14.25.50 drivers or later. Other chipsets are probably not supported unless they work with that driver or a newer one. "You have an unsupported chipset and your driver revision is to old. More recent drivers don't work. DTD Calculator (better said: DTDs itself) don't work on your chipset.
Either you get IEGD running or you don't. However even if IEGD doesn't run for you. It's not a loss. During general purpose office use this driver has so many restrictions.
I don't think there's any other way of getting your resolution to work. Unless you boot in linux (you may try ubuntu 8.04 live CD). And from linux use VMWare / VirtualBox for Windows. But that's unlikely what you want.
If you read the first couple of sentences here:
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/Wiki/Graphics/239.htm
You have an unsupported chipset and your driver revision is to old. More recent drivers don't work. DTD Calculator (better said: DTDs itself) don't work on your chipset.
Ah damn, I'm not sure how I missed those sentences. Thanks.
Either you get IEGD running or you don't. However even if IEGD doesn't run for you. It's not a loss. During general purpose office use this driver has so many restrictions.
I don't think there's any other way of getting your resolution to work. Unless you boot in linux (you may try ubuntu 8.04 live CD). And from linux use VMWare / VirtualBox for Windows. But that's unlikely what you want.
I do actually dual-boot Linux on that machine, so it's a possibility, but likely too much of a pain to be worth it :P Since 7.10 I've also had issues with the tablet driver in Ubuntu, but that's another issue altogether.
I guess I'll just have to revert to plan B: try to develop a driver that will allow me to hook my tablet PC up to my desktop and just use the tablet as an input device for the desktop. Hmm...
(You see now why I wish this were easier!)
Since 7.10 I've also had issues with the tablet driver in Ubuntu, but that's another issue altogether.
Upgrade to ubuntu 8.04.1 if that makes sense.
If you have video issues you may even experiment with latest 2.4.0 intel driver taken from intrepid repository:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/xserver-xorg-video-intel
If it's related to the touchscreen (= input device) you might update the driver for this one.
I guess I'll just have to revert to plan B: try to develop a driver that will allow me to hook my tablet PC up to my desktop and just use the tablet as an input device for the desktop.
I don't think you need to develop something. Just use remote desktop or VNC and you should be done. The XP tablet extensions can be enabled on the desktop as well as far as I know.
Upgrade to ubuntu 8.04.1 if that makes sense.
I have. Both 7.10 and 8.04 have the same problems. Here's hoping 8.10 will fix it but I somehow doubt it. (I've also had power management issues with 7.10 and 8.04, which are a bit more troubling. And apparently I am not the only one with my model of laptop to encounter them.)
I don't think you need to develop something. Just use remote desktop or VNC and you should be done. The XP tablet extensions can be enabled on the desktop as well as far as I know.
Hm, I suppose that's possible. Still the issue with that is that the display would be on the laptop, not the desktop, which is exactly what I've been trying to reverse through this whole situation ;)
Or, I could just break down and get an external tablet for the desktop! Pfuh.
Both 7.10 and 8.04 have the same problems.
There's one important difference between Windows and Linux I think. Intel redirects every support question related to Windows to your OEM manufacturer:
http://www.intel.com/support/feedback.htm
And the manufacturer is often simply not sufficiently qualified enough. Nor does he have access to important driver information and bug databases.
Anyway. With linux the situation is different. You get good support for your product. A good place to start is
http://ubuntuforums.org/
or if you know already which component/driver is causing trouble browse the bugtracker:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu
Ubuntu is just such a common distribution that it's quite unlikely you being the first person hitting a particular bug. In that case you'll find already the bug in the bugtracker and it either contains walkaround information or it contains information about when it's gonna be fixed: e.g. next ubuntu update, next ubuntu release or it's only fixed in a future upstream driver revision. However support for Linux isn't free: Often it costs your time.
BTW: Have you recognized ubuntu's technical answer system? Ask a question and it gets answered:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu
Related to the 1680 x 1050 resolution you were initially searching for: I'm sure this one is supported out of the box with those ubuntu installations, since the intel driver queries the display for it's preferred display mode.
Hm, I suppose that's possible. Still the issue with that is that the display would be on the laptop, not the desktop, which is exactly what I've been trying to reverse through this whole situation ;)
I'm confused about your requirements. You initial posting asks for 1680 x 1050 on the external display attached to the notebook. You won't get that in Windows easily (except IEGD drivers, which are kind of horrible). You will get that with ubuntu unless you run into other troubles, which you haven't mentioned yet. If you now use ubuntu to attach to the Windows installation on the desktop PC, you get your 1680 x 1050 out of your notebook without developing a "new driver", which you suggested.
If you don't want to use you notebook, but just the desktop then an external tablet would be helpful.
Anyway. With linux the situation is different. You get good support for your product. A good place to start is
http://ubuntuforums.org/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=599111
Though to be fair I never reported it in the bugtracker, but that's not to say no one else has:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/183242
I'm confused about your requirements. You initial posting asks for 1680 x 1050 on the external display attached to the notebook. You won't get that in Windows easily (except IEGD drivers, which are kind of horrible). You will get that with ubuntu unless you run into other troubles, which you haven't mentioned yet. If you now use ubuntu to attach to the Windows installation on the desktop PC, you get your 1680 x 1050 out of your notebook without developing a "new driver", which you suggested.
I was referring to your suggestion of using VNC. Then I'd be controlling my desktop with my tablet, yes, but the display would be on the tablet, not on the desktop monito-
Oh, nevermind. I just realized it would be visible on the desktop monitor. It might be weird, though, if the laptop only showed a 1024x768 "slice" of the full 1680x1050 screen, unless that can be configured in VNC.
