ah okay, i was wondering how to enter the grub thing, but it blinks by so fast, don’t give me much time to do anything with it Lol. barely even notice it’s there during boot. i posted the vbeinfo in an earlier post, ran command from terminal or whatever? Or maybe it was little different commands, here below…
**hwinfo --framebuffer
**
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer
[Created at bios.459]
Unique ID: rdCR.5dHCGM_Ucd6
Hardware Class: framebuffer
Model: "Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Controller"
Vendor: "Intel Corporation"
Device: "Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Controller"
SubVendor: "Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS"
SubDevice:
Revision: "Hardware Version 0.0"
Memory Size: 7 MB + 960 kB
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd07effff (rw)
Mode 0x0360: 848x480 (+896), 8 bits
Mode 0x0361: 848x480 (+1728), 16 bits
Mode 0x0362: 848x480 (+3392), 24 bits
Mode 0x033c: 1920x1440 (+1920), 8 bits
Mode 0x034d: 1920x1440 (+3840), 16 bits
Mode 0x033a: 1600x1200 (+1600), 8 bits
Mode 0x034b: 1600x1200 (+3200), 16 bits
Mode 0x035a: 1600x1200 (+6400), 24 bits
Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits
Mode 0x031a: 1280x1024 (+2560), 16 bits
Mode 0x031b: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits
Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+832), 8 bits
Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
yeah, i tried 1920x1200x24, or 1920x1200x60 or some such for GFX_MODE, didn’t do nothing. Even though it was claiming I could do 1920x1440, which should be bigger than 1920x1200 right? So I was a little smaller than it’s claiming I could do… ? Lol. I’m going to have to really figure out WHAT specs my monitor has, HOW to set it up correctly etc. I wish there was an online xorg automatic creation tool to use, it some how reads my monitor / computer specs, and creates the files itself and spits them out for me download them and use them lmao.
Another thing I forgot to add previously, the monitor that was given to me had some minor water damage, the little circuit board where the VGA cord connects too had some lightish green/blue-ish corroded build up on it and i cleaned it up with some rubbing alcohol to make it nice and clean. Wasn’t much build up of gunk though, but maybe the VGA cable had some in it’s pins or whatever… Maybe the pins in the back where it plugins into monitor isn’t great either, I’m not sure.
Because when I fire up tower, it sometimes goes through the various modes before registering it’s D-SUB, sometimes says PC-MODE, and couple others. Other times it’s giving like “Input Not Supported”, but I think that’s when I was doing the grub edits for various sizes or xorg.conf edits… It’s weird, because it’s like the monitor isn’t being registered with the operating system.
I went and removed OpenSuse, installed Kubuntu 15.04 or whatever once, because those intel-linux-drivers for ubuntu / fedora etc supported 15.04 Kubuntu … to see how those worked. And it’s not even registered with xorg at all. No 50-monitor.conf file, no 50-device.conf file, no 50-screen.conf file at all. In system settings > display / monitor … it’s not listing the resolutions after Kubuntu was installed, just gives button to “unify outputs”, then apply so resolutions are visible. Well I did that, applied it, rebooted, and it was back again where no resolutions are displayed, with “unify outputs” button there again. Like the changes I’ve done, to display resolutions didn’t work. Like “break unified outputs” option is sticking “on”.
I did another thing too, I installed EDID “test” thing. Out put of that is below here, not sure how to read it? Lol…
sudo get-edid | parse-edid
This is read-edid version 3.0.1. Prepare for some fun.
Attempting to use i2c interface
No EDID on bus 0
No EDID on bus 1
No EDID on bus 2
No EDID on bus 3
No EDID on bus 4
No EDID on bus 5
Looks like no busses have an EDID. Sorry!
Attempting to use the classical VBE interface
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
VBE version 300
VBE string at 0x11100 "Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS"
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Report DDC capabilities
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer
Reading next EDID block
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call failed
The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
Error: output block unchanged
I'm sorry nothing was successful. Maybe try some other arguments
if you played with them, or send an email to Matthew Kern <pyrophobicman@gmail.com>.
Partial Read... Try again
Something isn’t right some where, maybe the monitor is on last leg? Maybe the VGA port is ****, the cable is ****, or too “new” for the chipset / motherboard of mine… or maybe the conf files aren’t setup just right, hard to say. I’m not liking Kubuntu 15.04 though, probably will come back to OpenSuse Tumbleweed … 
Hopefully then get this setup right with all guy’s help. 
Oh, here’s xorg log file… xorglog - Pastebin.com