1280 x 800!?

brettuk · Oct 2, 2005, 02:33 AM

Hey,

I've got a widescreen 1280 x 800 screen on my laptop, the old Omega Drivers worked fine... but the news ones wont let me select this resolution at all... so I get a stretched (or if I go higher.. 'virtual') desktop which is annoying... I'm gonna roll back soon, but I do want to upgrade... so any ideas? (Tried using the manual thing - RefreshFix, doesn't seem to work

)

Any ideas?
Thanks

yozick · Oct 2, 2005, 03:15 AM

I am currently using the 5.9b version from omega and running 1200x800 and all is fine for me might want to uninstall and reinstall drivers.

GrumpyMan · Oct 2, 2005, 10:02 AM

I am having the same issue and uninstalling and reinstalling does NOT solve the problem. Anyone got any other ideas?

GrumpyMan · Oct 3, 2005, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brettuk

Hey,

I've got a widescreen 1280 x 800 screen on my laptop, the old Omega Drivers worked fine... but the news ones wont let me select this resolution at all... so I get a stretched (or if I go higher.. 'virtual') desktop which is annoying... I'm gonna roll back soon, but I do want to upgrade... so any ideas? (Tried using the manual thing - RefreshFix, doesn't seem to work

)

Any ideas?
Thanks

brettuk, what laptop do you have? I have a Mitac 8050, Evesham brand. GPU is m11 (9700).

Watson · Oct 3, 2005, 08:43 PM

I am not certain about the Omega Drivers, but this problem is fixable on the ATI mobility drivers through an edit of an .inf setup file. See: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...5&page=4&pp=15

The advice there is to uninstall and reinstall, but I found that a simple reinstall of the drivers (only) after editing this .inf file worked. Simply run the setup.exe file in the drivers folder. My laptop immediately defaulted right to the 1280x800 after a reboot. The Control Panel and games, etc. seem to work fine.

Good luck.

My laptop: Emachines 6805 (ATI mobility 9600 w/ 64mb dedicated)

sirpat_exe · Oct 6, 2005, 01:50 PM

For some reason (this will sound weird) I was using powerstrip and my changes wouldnt be accepted. My laptop is pretty new and I made an adminstrator account I could name after the update (and after I tried to fix the resolution). I uninstalled power strip, and the activated the new user account and Cataylist started detecting 1280x800 res. I dont know why but it worked for me, I guess it wouldnt hurt to try.

GregS · Oct 6, 2005, 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirpat_exe

For some reason (this will sound weird) I was using powerstrip and my changes wouldnt be accepted. My laptop is pretty new and I made an adminstrator account I could name after the update (and after I tried to fix the resolution). I uninstalled power strip, and the activated the new user account and Cataylist started detecting 1280x800 res. I dont know why but it worked for me, I guess it wouldnt hurt to try.

Your changes with power strip porbably did work. I used to use PStrip way back to get the wide screen, I would install PStrip, set the resolution and uninstall it and the settings would remain.

xecuterbox · Oct 9, 2005, 03:04 PM

Iv got an Amilo A1630 w/ radeon mobility 9700
got same probs, will try the inf config file

Oct 2, 2005, 02:33 AM	#1
brettuk DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	1280 x 800!? Hey, I've got a widescreen 1280 x 800 screen on my laptop, the old Omega Drivers worked fine... but the news ones wont let me select this resolution at all... so I get a stretched (or if I go higher.. 'virtual') desktop which is annoying... I'm gonna roll back soon, but I do want to upgrade... so any ideas? (Tried using the manual thing - RefreshFix, doesn't seem to work ) Any ideas? Thanks

Oct 2, 2005, 03:15 AM	#2
yozick DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 0 Rep Power: 0	I am currently using the 5.9b version from omega and running 1200x800 and all is fine for me might want to uninstall and reinstall drivers.

Oct 2, 2005, 10:02 AM	#3
GrumpyMan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I am having the same issue and uninstalling and reinstalling does NOT solve the problem. Anyone got any other ideas?

Oct 3, 2005, 08:43 PM	#5
Watson DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I am not certain about the Omega Drivers, but this problem is fixable on the ATI mobility drivers through an edit of an .inf setup file. See: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...5&page=4&pp=15 The advice there is to uninstall and reinstall, but I found that a simple reinstall of the drivers (only) after editing this .inf file worked. Simply run the setup.exe file in the drivers folder. My laptop immediately defaulted right to the 1280x800 after a reboot. The Control Panel and games, etc. seem to work fine. Good luck. My laptop: Emachines 6805 (ATI mobility 9600 w/ 64mb dedicated)

Oct 6, 2005, 01:50 PM	#6
sirpat_exe DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	For some reason (this will sound weird) I was using powerstrip and my changes wouldnt be accepted. My laptop is pretty new and I made an adminstrator account I could name after the update (and after I tried to fix the resolution). I uninstalled power strip, and the activated the new user account and Cataylist started detecting 1280x800 res. I dont know why but it worked for me, I guess it wouldnt hurt to try.

Oct 9, 2005, 03:04 PM	#8
xecuterbox DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Iv got an Amilo A1630 w/ radeon mobility 9700 got same probs, will try the inf config file