Via graphic card and 1024×600 resolution

[Member lafricain]

Hello,
I have an old HP-mini 2133 with a Via CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01) graphic card. During installation the resolution was 800×480, very bad. After installing I just modified the xorg.conf file using openchrome driver. The resolution is now 1024×768. It looks great but bigger than the screen and I can’t see the panel.
I tried by multiple ways to trick the xorg.conf. But nothing gives me the right resolution, 1024×600.
I tried to add this option in grub, and I tried this page: https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/hp_2133_mininote
Nothing is working. Any idea?

[Moderator caprea]

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Did you try this
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/changing-screen-resolution/

Otherwise this might helps
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/image-too-big-for-the-screen-overscan/#post-35410

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Alt with a left click will let you drag opened box windows so you can get the border on small net book screens.

I* seem to remember I ran my 9 inch screens in 1024×600 though. Lets check

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Elite Systems driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x600~53Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 

I know I was not running a via setup but them small screen net books seem to work good on 1024×600
My thread; https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/ma-companion-xecure/

Edit: also know you want 1024 x 600 with the open chrome driver and a created /etc/X11/xorg.conf

harry@biker:~
$ cd /etc/X11
harry@biker:/etc/X11
$ ls
app-defaults             icewm    Xloadimage    Xreset.d    Xsession.options
default-display-manager  rgb.txt  xorg.conf.d   Xresources  xsm
fluxbox                  xinit    xorg.conf.in  Xsession    XvMCConfig
fonts                    xkb      Xreset        Xsession.d  Xwrapper.config

Something I have not used in a while. Good luck. Are you running full or base?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by rokytnji.

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Via_Technologies#The_OpenChrome_driver

I’ll also mention. Every full iso since antiX 8.5 on live boot before install. Gave me line readout of

Either wait or hit key to select screen resolutions on boot.

I finally figured out to wait and antiX always defaulted to 1024X600 on my netbooks. Every time I chose not to wait and decided to try my hand on the other option. I would screw the pooch.

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[Member lafricain]

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Hi guys,
I’m sorry I didn’t receive notification about your answers!! I’m reading it right now.

[Member lafricain]

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None of this solutions work for me. I think I will use antix17.

[Moderator caprea]

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Here’s an example for a /etc/X11/xorg.conf for your card
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/workaround-on-hp2133/

[Member lafricain]

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None is working, I have to install Antix17, this is pity antiX19 is beautiful.

[Moderator caprea]

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Sorry, I forgot there’s also a special build based on antiX 19.3 i386-base from member Xecure with an older Xorg which might worth a try.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-antix-on-computers-with-a-motherboard-with-sis-or-via-chipset/#post-45615

[Member lafricain]

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It’s working!!! I just boot with this remix version, and the screen is perfect! Thank you. Now I will try to install. And come back.

[Member lafricain]

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Hello,
I have a new question, I installed this remix version, and it’s working perfectly, only the sound card is not working well after some updates. I’m now in Africa, and I use a mirror on an usb drive of the antix sources.list. The remix version is antix 19.3 but my mirror is antix 19.4, is it possible to use the sources of 19.4 for 19.3?

[Member PPC]

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I never used Xecure’s antiX Via remix, but, generally speaking all 19.X packages work across all 19.X (no matter what ever the X number is).

P.

[Member marcelocripe]

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Hello Lafricain,

The ISO “antiX-19-legacy-bet2_386-base.iso” that was indicated by @Caprea is a bit outdated compared to the full ISO created by Xecure that has many improvements over the previous ISO, go to:

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-antix-on-computers-with-a-motherboard-with-sis-or-via-chipset/page/7/#post-62423

marcelocripe
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Olá Lafricain,

A ISO “antiX-19-legacy-bet2_386-base.iso” que foi indicada pelo @Caprea está um pouco desatualizada em relação a ISO full criada pelo Xecure que possui muitas melhorias em relação a ISO anterior, acesse:

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-antix-on-computers-with-a-motherboard-with-sis-or-via-chipset/page/7/#post-62423

marcelocripe
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