On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:48:44 -0400 > > > > Terry Zink <tzink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Before I unplug my workstation here and switch over to this widescreen > > > LCD, anyone have any idea how well fedora is at detecting non standard > > > (aka widescreen) resolutions? > > > > Depends on the monitor. FC7 has better auto config stuff in X than FC6, > > but it isn't too difficult unless you have an ATI card with problems > > keeping a signal coming out the DVI cable :-). > > > > For various useful tidbits scattered among the rant, see: > > > > http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html > > > > The important bit is that you can get X to tell you what modeline the > > EDID info claims you need in the log file, then you cut & paste the info > > into the xorg.conf file. It isn't too difficult (though it boggles the > > mind that it took so long for X to do the cut & paste for you :-). > > When I first got my laptop I had a display problem. Someone told me about a > package called 'gtf'. That, as I understand it, queries your hardware and > gives you modeline that will work. It completely cured the problem for me. > > Anne > -- Indeed. http://gtf.sourceforge.net/ - Gilboa
