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Ok, ever since I posted some screen shots of my Eee running Lazertag's drivers, (modded by Stonerkitty) with the DPI set to 144 I have been asked by lots of people through PM's to explain how I did it and where I got the drivers. Since this is all readily available on the forums, (in multiple threads) I thought I would just consolidate the information in one easy to reference and follow topic.
Credit goes to lazertag for the drivers, Stonerkitty for his modification of these drivers, and themodshop.net for its explanation, (whch I copied) of how to install the drivers properly. Here's how to do it:
Alright, first, go download these drivers and unzip them:
http://downloads.themodshop.net/data/ee … rivers.zip
Now, follow these directions carefully:
Click Start, then right click on My Computer, then select Properties
Goto the Hardware tab and select Devices.
In the devices menu find Display Adapter.
Right click on the Display Adapters and click Update Driver.
Click Install Manually
Then select Dont search I will select the driver to install.
Then click Have Disk and navigate to where you extracted the drivers.
This will install the drivers to your system.
Do this for both video adapters and then restart your EeePc and you should now be able to use 800×600 and 1024×768 scaled.
If you don't follow the instructions exactly you will encounter errors. Make sure everything is done manually.
Now, as for the DPI, close out all windows and right click on your desktop.
Select Properties
Then select Settings
Finally, select Advanced.
This brings you to where you can select DPI.
Depending on your nlited installation of XP, (or if you nlited at all) you may have to install the new fonts. You will need an XP cd to do this, so make sure you have it on hand. I recommend you set the DPI at 144.
Below are some pictures of my Eee running this configuration. The first is my desktop, second is a picture of the forums, and the third is a picture of my desktop taken from my HTC Touch Cruise, to show what the screen looks like when not taken from a screen capture utility.
Once again, thanks to Lazertag, stonerkitty, and themodshop.net for all of this information. I am just consolidating it and making an easy to follow guide with the info all in one place. Good luck!
Chris
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One more thing. These drivers are not perfect. They don't support sleep mode, so just keep that in mind. Otherwise, they are excellent and I have really fallen in love with my Eee since getting the resolution to (simulated) 1024x768. I hope everyone else can make use of this guide and enjoy their Eee PC that much more!
Chris
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Thanks Chris, I am going to try this at the weekend, this post should be in the wiki
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is it working on vista?
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I've been debating a long time whether or not to install these drivers, I don't hate the 800x480 and like being in the native res, but i imagine it'd be pretty nice to have more screen real estate and more browser space. Does this driver affect gaming at all? will I be able to put it in 800x600 and play diablo full screen? or would gaming and such be just like it is now?
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But don't forget you lose the ability to rotate the screen if that's important to you.
Last edited by norm2002 (2008-02-15 6:52:24 am)
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Gators300 wrote:
Depending on your nlited installation of XP, (or if you nlited at all) you may have to install the new fonts. You will need an XP cd to do this, so make sure you have it on hand. I recommend you set the DPI at 144.
Sorry but how do you install the new fonts?
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this is simply rocks!!!
thanks so much.
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This driver is horrible for gaming. It makes games extremely choppy.
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very unstable, will wait for something elese
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It is definitely not perfect, but I use my eee mostly for web browsing and word processing, and for those things it is great.
norm2002: XP will prompt you to insert the XP CD and once you do it installs the new font for you. You don't do it manually.
Chris
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I put the new driver in, butdon't like it at all! How can I revert? where can I get the old driver?
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PaulC wrote:
I put the new driver in, butdon't like it at all! How can I revert? where can I get the old driver?
Just go back to the properties page (where you installed the new drivers), go to drivers tab, and press "rollback" to previous drivers. This will return you to the old drivers.
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For those of you cautious enough to scroll through comments before mucking around with drivers:
The EeePC is widescreen; 1024x768 is not. Your stuff will all look stretched.
You may not be able to read text on your screen during part of this operation. Take screenshots beforehand of the driver contextual menus and put them on your other PC.
When you roll back your drivers, do it only once. (Not like me... but hey, I couldn't see what I was doing.)
Put the VGA graphics card install folder ("vga") from your Asus install CD on a USB stick, just in case.
This should save you a few restarts, if you're a helpless tinkerer like myself.
I'm back with 800x480.
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My experience
Drivers are easy enough to install, thanks to Gators300 guide here
After my first reboot, Windows didn't make it to the loading screen - instead the screen displayed a black screen with a mash up of grey pixels. *panic*
Restarted again - loaded up okay this time?! *panic over*
There's a distinct quality difference, most notably some mysterious grey lines that appear vertically across the screen (even in 800x480) as well the screen being stretched in 1024x768.
Another thing I noticed, particular when looking at photos, is the colour quality isn't as great (even set to 32bit) resulting in some very pixelated images.
The major problem I had, but I can't see how this is related, was my Eee would only boot once in every three restarts. Often freezing on the login screen, once on the Asus splash screen too.
I've now also rolled back to my old intel drivers and everything seems to be alright again.
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hi, these drives are great but im experiencing some issues with changing the DPI, the DPI selector is stuck at custom settings and when i change the DPI it will ask me for administrator privilege on my admin acccount. how do i fix this?
thx
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You log in as an Administrator, or give it the Administrator's password.
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i did log on as admin, still wouldnt let me change it
how do i enable a secondary screen to display the same desktop, instead of extended desktop?
Last edited by kivoen (2008-02-19 12:58:49 am)
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thnx 4 everyone whose posts did n r helping me out.the screen res isdamn gud on mine..for those who e havin probs i suggest that u check every step.....thnx again.
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Am I the only person who finds it extremely odd (and annoying?) that whoever made these drivers did not make the higher resolutions widescreen so that the aspect ratio is correct?
Really everything to me looks fine in 800x480. I mean just maximize everything and set the taskbar to auto-hide.. at least try it?
seems way better to me than a blurry/unreadable screen. I have MS Office 2003 and looks great maximized..
i did try to install Adobe Design Premium CS3 (only photoshop) and it complained that the minimum res needed is 1024x768 which is ****.. I shoot Adobe for that one, and then Photoshop is only 300mb but it insists on installing this 1.2gb crapola. So I am sticking with GIMP for the EeePC.
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Does the Fn+F5 function works with this driver?
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hillie wrote:
i did try to install Adobe Design Premium CS3 (only photoshop) and it complained that the minimum res needed is 1024x768 which is ****.. I shoot Adobe for that one, and then Photoshop is only 300mb but it insists on installing this 1.2gb crapola. So I am sticking with GIMP for the EeePC.
I installed photoshop cs3 on my passport through mojopac and didn't run into any trouble.
I agree with the folks who think the 1024x768 aspect ratio sucks. I'm diggin' the 8x6 and will stick with it till some badass cooks up another high-res driver.
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Hello! I've got a little problem: I've installed the drivers, I can change the resolution but when I reboot the system return on resolution.
It doesn't save the settings! what's the matter!?
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works perfect for me, no dramas at all, however i don't use my eee for gaming.
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RE: missing fonts.
Can someone host the required fonts for those of us that do not have an external DVD drive?
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