I've made some progress on this issue, but it has led to some other frustrations: I have been able to force the intel-2.x drivers to use a lower resolution by adding these two lines to my xorg.conf: Section "Monitor" Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768" Section "Device" Option "Monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0" While it seems to produce the desired result I'm having a few other issues. - X is a bit unstable with this setup. Sometimes during my tests when resetting the X server, the screen would go black and would not come back up. Even the vt's went black. The solution was to kill the power and restart the machine. - I no longer can use direct 3D rendering. Without those two above additions to my xorg.conf I have DRI, but with them at the 1024x768 resolution it uses "Mesa GLX indirect". I'm also not really happy using such a solution, since I prefer to specify multiple fallback resolutions, so if I hook the machine into a screen that can do 1280x1024 or another that runs 1024x768 it will work without any reconfiguration or running extra commands or editing files. Is there any way to make X follow the Modes specified in the Display section? IMHO, this was much easier in the past: SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" Mike -- <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Mike Gualtieri <<a href="mailto:mike.gualtieri@gmail.com">mike.gualtieri@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for this issue. I'm posting here, because I'm not sure if this is really a bug of if some options have changed. I'm having problems limiting my resolution to 1024x768 when using the 2.x version of the intel i810 drivers. Even when specifing a lower resolution in my xorg.conf, it defaults to the max resolution possible. In the past (using the 1.7.4 intel drivers or earlier) I would include something like this in my xorg.conf, which would force Xorg to start at 1024x768 resolution, but now on my laptop it starts at 1280x800: SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" Here is the related Monitor section (which was generated by autoprobing via Xorg -configure): Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 260 160 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "AUO" ModelName "2114" HorizSync 28.0 - 96.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 EndSection I have tried to use Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768" in the Monitor section, but this also has no effect. With xrandr, it is possible to force the lower resolution after X has started: # xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 Here is a related portion of my Xorg log: (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "720x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1152x864" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "832x624" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1152x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1024" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output LVDS (II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x800"x65.3 75.00 1280 1301 1333 1408 800 804 808 816 -hsync -vsync (53.3 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz) (II) intel(0): Output TMDS disconnected (II) intel(0): EDID for output TMDS (II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected (II) intel(0): Output LVDS connected (II) intel(0): Output TMDS disconnected (II) intel(0): Output LVDS using initial mode 1280x800 I have only experienced this with the Intel drivers, and verified it on multiple machines. I tested this with the intel 2.1.1 and 2.3.1 drivers, as well as xorg-server 1.3 and 1.4. Any ideas? </blockquote></div>