On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 17:06, Beartooth wrote: > I first got FC1 maybe three months or so after it came out; got it > installed & configured after much help online (especially on and under > novalug) -- and liked it very much. > > Then I went out and bought a fancy flat panel monitor, a BenQ FP767 -- and > had so much grief with configuring that, that I finally despaired and went > back, with deep regret, to RH9. > > Just the other day I picked up a couple of books in a local store that > came with CDs -- one, Ball & Duff, actually also had a DVD; and the > machine I put it on this time has a reader; so I used that, and of course > ran up2date at once. It wasn't long till I thought to check the GUI > display configuration -- and there, lo and behold!, was an entry for the > FP767. Bingo! I swapped monitors, connecting the flat one to the FC1 > machine; chose that entry in the configurator -- and it just runs! > > Vast is my gratitude, vast! Bless them every one! (And if somebody who can > post to their list will kindly point to this post, TIA for that -- I'm not > competent even to *read* a developers' list, let alone cruft it up with my > subscription. But I sure do enjoy the work of those who are!) Free beer > and adulation await any who pass through Blacksburg, Virginia. > > -- > Beartooth Implacable, curmudgeonly codger learning linux > Work is for people who can't hunt. > > If you don't see your monitor on the list, you can submit the DCC info to the package maintainers, which will help get it supported more quickly.
