Elonex Webbook Screen Resolution Issue

[webbooknovice]

(SOLVED) Elonex Webbook Screen Resolution Issue. Dear all, yesterday I upgraded my Elonex Webbook to Ubuntu 9.04 and now have an issue with the screen resolution and the 3G connection. The Wader? broadband connector seems to be missing too. As regards the screen resolution, it is currently too big, and means I can't scroll down to the bottom of some of the panels. Any ideas, I so wish I'd just left things be!!

Thanks in advance.

Andy

[Didius Falco]

Hi Andy,

I think I've found a solution to the screen resolution problem:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-adj...on-ubuntu.html

That's halfway home...

I hope it helps...

[Didius Falco]

Here is a link to the Wader PPA, where you can download the deb file and sneakernet it to your webbook for installation and then add the Repository to your Software Sources for any future updates.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~wader/+archive/ppa

I hope this resolves your issues...

Regards,

Didius

[KJH]

Yes I had the same problem and it drove me nuts. The lovely people at Elonex were very friendly, but completely useless, the best they could offer was to rebuild the hard disk at my own expense with 8.04, as it was my fault for trying to upgrade to unsupported software - I politely declined. I am no expert in Linux, but like an intellectual challenge, though this one taxed my patience to the limit!

The work around I found was to put in a line explicitly defining the PanelSize in the xorg.conf file. Search around on google for how to edit that file if you haven't done it before. I think this is probably all you need to do, but I spent some time trying to find a work around so I also am using the OpenChrome drivers, (the Via chip in the Elonex is a CX700) and have put in the monitor size in the conf file too, neither of these worked, but I have not dared remove them yet as I wasted so much work time already on this , and now the system is working fine I daren't waste more time on it.

So what i have added into my default xorg.conf is this (below), but as I say I suspect all you need is the line defining the PanelSize, so try that line first then add the other lines if this doesn't work, and download the drivers from the OpenChrome site if necessary but I think they are already included with Jaunty:

"Device"
Indetinfier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "openchrome"
Option "PanelSize" "1024x600"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Indentifier "Configured Monitor"
DisplaySize 221 129 # 117 DPI @ 1024x600
Opiton "noDDC"
EndSection


Please let me know how all you poor unsupported Elonex customers get on, and if you find any other mods that work, but I am finding this works just fine and really like Jaunty, especially the fast load time.

[KJH]

PS can't help with the 3G bit, as I don't use that so hope the solution above works

[webbooknovice]

SOLVED - Many thanks. Andy

[webbooknovice]

Yes I had the same problem and it drove me nuts. The lovely people at Elonex were very friendly, but completely useless, the best they could offer was to rebuild the hard disk at my own expense with 8.04, as it was my fault for trying to upgrade to unsupported software - I politely declined. I am no expert in Linux, but like an intellectual challenge, though this one taxed my patience to the limit!

The work around I found was to put in a line explicitly defining the PanelSize in the xorg.conf file. Search around on google for how to edit that file if you haven't done it before. I think this is probably all you need to do, but I spent some time trying to find a work around so I also am using the OpenChrome drivers, (the Via chip in the Elonex is a CX700) and have put in the monitor size in the conf file too, neither of these worked, but I have not dared remove them yet as I wasted so much work time already on this , and now the system is working fine I daren't waste more time on it.

So what i have added into my default xorg.conf is this (below), but as I say I suspect all you need is the line defining the PanelSize, so try that line first then add the other lines if this doesn't work, and download the drivers from the OpenChrome site if necessary but I think they are already included with Jaunty:

"Device"
Indetinfier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "openchrome"
Option "PanelSize" "1024x600"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Indentifier "Configured Monitor"
DisplaySize 221 129 # 117 DPI @ 1024x600
Opiton "noDDC"
EndSection


Please let me know how all you poor unsupported Elonex customers get on, and if you find any other mods that work, but I am finding this works just fine and really like Jaunty, especially the fast load time.

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Many thanks, it worked a treat. Andy

[maxcelpc]

Thank you KJH.

As you suspected, I only required the Options "PanelSize" "1024x600" line to get my display correct.

[grinaldi]

I have just updated my Elonex webbook with Ubuntu 9.10 and found my screen is unreadable - help! - please.

[Hygaphunkik]

I have just updated my Elonex webbook with Ubuntu 9.10 and found my screen is unreadable - help! - please.

Have just finished upgrading this afternoon and found this page which helped a huge amount http://webbookblog.com/

Just one thing though where he writes the line

Section Device

right at the beginning he should have put

Section "Device"

The quotes are important, without them it will not work.

Hope this helps, and let me know how it goes.