my suggestion is if a lower screen resolution is available to exchange your laptop for it.

uwga is really for those with perfect vision.

You must have a defective screen or video card.

My E1705 responds fine when I change the resolution. I run at 1600x(something) and it covers the whole screen.

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@TheSpecialist wrote:
You must have a defective screen or video card.

My E1705 responds fine when I change the resolution. I run at 1600x(something) and it covers the whole screen.

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Yup, running 137 dpi (I believe that is the actual DPI of the monitor) and it's crystal clear with no blur.

hello

can you tell me how you got the e1705 to work with geentoo and wireless?

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@maprx wrote:
hello

can you tell me how you got the e1705 to work with geentoo and wireless?

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The simplest answer:
"emerge ipw3945" - the ipw3945 drivers are now in the standard Gentoo tree, although I think they are marked as unstable and you may need to unmask them. Also, you may need to do some manual tweaking of your kernel source tree, you'll be presented with instructions on how to do that if you try to emerge the ipw3945 package without doing the required preinstallation steps.

This only works if you have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 adapter. I can't help you if you bought any of the non-Intel options. Most of them are Broadcom-based which means you're likely out of luck.

I do have the intel you mentioned, we have the same configuration. So far the only distro I have gotten to work out of the box is Mandriva 2007 rc2.

I will try your suggestion

thanks

mike