couragefilms Posted July 6, 2004 Posted July 6, 2004 Just purchased a used dell latitude LS 500mhz laptop, and I love it to pieces. My only problem is with the resolution, it's native is 800 x 600. I'm use to my desktop's 1280 x 1024, and I've grown fond of the screen size at this resolution. Is there any way to either upgrade my laptop graphics driver or change it some other way? It gives me the option to go up to 1280 x 1024, but when I click on it, it comes up with the message that my native resolution is 800 x 600, and that it'll effects how windows is running. When I click to proceed, it says that an error occured. Could this be a memory issue, as there is only 128mbs installed, or otherwise? Please Advise. Les Novak Quote
FPCH Admin AWS Posted July 6, 2004 FPCH Admin Posted July 6, 2004 Could be a memory issue since the onboard graphics uses the ram. Have you tried to set the reoloution to 1024 x 768 or something larger than 800 x 600? Quote Off Topic Forum - Unlike the Rest
couragefilms Posted July 6, 2004 Author Posted July 6, 2004 No, I only tried setting it to 1280x1024, would this make a difference, it's out of the house at the moment, but do you think this could make a difference? what does VGA mean as well? Quote
GavinO Posted July 7, 2004 Posted July 7, 2004 What may be happening is that the graphics chipset supports the higher resolution, but the LCD does not. If the native resolution of the LCD is quoted as 800x600, you probably can't hit a higher number. As for video modes, a brief summary: VGA: 640x480 (video graphics array) SVGA: 800x600 (super VGA) XGA: 1024x768 (X makes it look high tech) SXGA: 1280x1024 (With Super-X powers!) UXGA: 1600x1200 (Ultra-X Graphics Array) Quote -The Gavster Three students died that year at the academy; one was executed, one was killed in a training accident, and one died of natural causes, for a knife to back will naturally kill anyone. -RA Salvatore Like to IRC? Try http://irc.randomirc.com
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