On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 13:47:20 -0400, Joe Smith <jes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So my questions are: > 1) Shouldn't Anaconda/system-config-display detect my monitor? There is a bug with the radeon driver that can cause this problem. > 2) Is the Screen section being deprecated? > 3) If so, then is there an easier way to get my required configuration? > > I mean, it would sweet if running system-config-display was all I needed > to do. I don't like the new system right now. I had some issues because the config file seems to only get set for the current color depth and if you switch color depth you may need to boot to level 3 to fix things. The display page doesn't use the color depth and resolution together. So it allows you to pick combinations that will cause problems. (Though this might really be due to missing data in the xorg.conf file for a color depth.) Also when you change your display hardware (after it wasn't detected) it doesn't use the resolution displayed in the setup screen. I suspect that you might have to touch something on that screen, but haven't tried that yet. Another anoying thing, is that when it knows what the monitor is, it doesn't seem to take into account either the native resolution of the display or the aspect ratio when picking which resolution to use by default. It seems to pick whatever has the most pixels. I would expect the native aspect ratio to be preferred as well as not exceeding the native resolution in either dimension by default.
