how to get BT4 to correctly display at 1024x600?

its driving me nuts because i am stuck in 800x600. when i was running off a live usb i had managed to get it to display at 1024x600 (60hz) by editing the menu.lst's vga=0x317 to 0x315 and then installed to hard drive.

but somewhere along the way i did a fixvesa and it reverted me back to 800x600 (86hz) and i don't like it even though it looks nicer than before. i thought that if i edited the menu.lst again it would work but it only displayed the resolution before startx. after using startx it went to 800x600.

i've been trying to google this for a few days and in those searches i've seen mention of xorg.conf but nothing specific was ever said. i am a complete newbie to linux so please don't tell me to do this and that without explaining where "this" is and how to play with "that"

model: AOA150-1126 ZG5
VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)

hopefully i posted enough information for someone to accurately help me

 

I've never used bt4, but seeing that it's based on Ubuntu, I offer the following suggestion:
1. Open up a terminal window
2. Type, without the quotes (letter X is uppercase, everything else is lowercase):
"sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak"
3. Reboot

If you get a message that begins with something like "mv: cannot stat '/etc/X11.xorg.conf", don't worry; it just means my suggestion above is useless (unlikely, but certainly possible).

If /etc/xorg.conf exists, butthe above doesn't work, you can always edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
4. Open another terminal window
5. Type (letter X is uppercase, everything else is lowercase):
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf
6. Type:
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
7. Navigate to area
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
8. If there's a line after the Depth 24 line something like
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
then just edit it to look like
Modes "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
before "800x600"
9. Ctrl-O to write out the file, then Ctrl-X to exit
10. Reboot

If nothing I've suggested works, I'm out of ideas

 

okay the first option worked, thank you!

but is the refresh rate supposed to be 60 hz? because when it was at 800x600 it was 86 hz and curiously i clicked back to 800x600 to see if i could revert back to 1024x600 i noticed the refresh rate wasn't 86 hz like it previously was but was 60 hz as well.

 

you know whats weird? even though the first option worked i tried to next one just in case i messed it up again somehow and it reverted me back to 800x600(86hz) so i went to the 2nd method and changed the 1024x768 to 1024x600 and rebooted but it didn't work........so i did the first option again and it worked again thankfully...

but i do sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf now and its completely empty...why? and why won't it let me change the resolution when i insert the correct resolution options in the xorg.conf?

 

The first option gets rid of the xorg.conf file completely. Running sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf would create the file if you chose to save it. The current version of Xorg generally chooses the proper resolution without a configuration file. My experience is that it works fine on the AA1.
As for the xorg.conf file created by bt4 not working, I'm going to guess it uses the vesa driver. Is there a line:
Driver vesa
in the Device section of the file? 1024x600 is not a VESA standard mode; the vesa driver can't render it, so it goes to the next lower resolution, which would be 800x600.

 

I have used BT3 and installed the graphics driver using the method devised by CHEOPS, this gives me the 1024x600 resolution.
Now I am on BT4 I cannot get the 1024x600 resolution.
I have tried all the methods described in this thread and cannot get any to work!
Ie: xorg not exist in BT4 R1? Editing menu from vga 0X317 to 0x315 does nothing!
Have looked on all Bt4 forums to no avail.
HELP HELP HELP