Intel 845G woes: login resolution, xv, blue bar on video playback

[Zorael]

I thought I knew my way around xorg.conf but here I am, stumped and out of ideas. I bought a Compaq Evo (something) cheap and I figured I'd put Kubuntu on it.

$ lshw -C video
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=i810_smbus latency=0 module=i2c_i810

First of all; the monitor supports resolutions up to 1600x1200, but X *refuses* to make 1280x1024 the default. The login screen is *always* in 1024x768, though upon having logged in it properly switches to my user-specifically chosen 1280x1024. I've tried what first sprung to mind, defining the resolutions in xorg.conf and putting 1280x1024 first, but that didn't help.

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection      "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes   "1280x1024" "1600x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "DEL", prod id 28673
(II) intel(0): Output VGA connected
(II) intel(0): Output VGA "1280x1024"using initial mode 1024x768

Secondly, I'm having some serious issues with xv. Mplayer refuses to play some/all files, spouting the following to a terminal.

VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12  [zoom]
Source image dimensions are too high: 1280x720 (maximum is 1024x1088)
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

Kaffeine (and xine) plays the same files, but a sizeable part of the output is just a blue field. I imagine this is the "overlay color", at a lack of better words? The field scales if I scale the video. To boot, Kaffeine always crashes upon closing it after having played anything using xv.

So far, I've made some modifications to xorg.conf as per the Compiz-Fusion wiki to enable AiGLX. That did, of course, speed up drawing speeds, but not much else.


Any ideas? Thanks.

[jonno]

Secondly, I'm having some serious issues with xv. Mplayer refuses to play some/all files, spouting the following to a terminal.

VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12  [zoom]
Source image dimensions are too high: 1280x720 (maximum is 1024x1088)
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

Any ideas? Thanks.

I've just noticed the same problem trying to playing hi-def video (same Intel 845G). Thread started here.
Did you ever figure out a solution?

[bigbrovar]

for the resolution problem have you tried installing 915resolution from synpatic or geekly via terminal

sudo apt-get install 915resolution