Pete Zahut wrote:
PS, just flashed BIOS from V2.90 to 3.60 and VGA BIOS from Intel V1264 to
V1377 - but no different.


If you run the monitor info program here, without the external monitor
connected, and with just the internal LCD panel, does it say the
panel is 1280 x 800 ? An EDID might be a way for the laptop
manufacturer, to provide plug and play info about the panel,
its native size and resolutions. Not having an EDID on some
I2C bus, is not the end of the world, and is not a defect.

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm

This article mentions that the BIOS can declare some info
about the panel, using an ACPI entry. The BIOS passes ACPI tables
to the operating system. You can look in Device Manager, or
alternately, use Everest Free Edition, to dump a text file
with a lot of that stuff.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archiv...ledisplay.mspx

http://majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

I also noticed, when looking at the Intel driver on the
Acer 5630 download page (acer.co.uk), that it has an option
to define the resolution and refresh rate during installation.
Which is a pretty strange option to see. You'd think that
info would be fixed in some other way. Maybe it is for
development purposes or something, or used to override
some default ?

Paul