----- Original Message ---- From: Pete Huckelba <redhat@xxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:56:13 AM Subject: Re: FC7: 1680x1050 screen resolution on thinkpad T61 with Intel 965GM X3100 video chipset. Globe Trotter wrote: > --- trendle <no-reply-gw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I have a similar problem with a 1680x1050 lcd monitor and fc7. >> >> I can set the physical screen to the correct size, but cannot see any >> solution for the display size. >> >> However, fwiw... I tried a spare disk and installed the most recent mandriva >> (spring 2007). It recognised and setup the screen correctly. >> >> So there is no hardware problem for me, and it seems there is no fundamental >> linux issue. Just fedora fc7. >> >> Its a shame to blight a good distro by giving non expert users such grief >> setting up a simple thing as the display. > > Agreed! And I have the opensource intel.....which installed perfectly with > xubuntu. Wonder when it will work out of the box with fedora..... > > btw, i filed a bug report: no one has assigned it yet, so this is really low > priority, looks like. > > i filed it under 915resolution. anything else that would be more apt? > > trotter rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm yum -y install 915resolution Then add to the bottom of /etc/rc /usr/sbin/915resolution 3a 1680 1050 24 and reboot. Thanks for the above. I uninstalled 915resolution using yum, and then went through the steps above. To no avail. I was not able to get the higher 1680x1050 resolution.... Any further suggestions? Btw, I wonder why we need the livna repo. I did follow the above advice word for word, though. Many thanks, Trotter ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
