On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 15:05 -0800, alan wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Craig White wrote: > > > Have Dell Optiplex 320 and 19" Dell FP analog display. Motherboard video > > has ATI Embedded. > > > > Display was OK on Fedora 7 (I tweaked it around a bit) > > > > Upgraded to Fedora 8 - display looked weak, too bright, gamma way off, > > fonts thin, ugly. > > > > Switched to runlevel 3 and ran 'system-config-display --reconfig' and > > set it up anew. Did a start X, logged in as root, still pretty bad. > > > > Created a new local user, logged in as that user, still looked bad. Took > > a screengrab (Ksnapshot) brought it over to my usual desktop, the > > screengrab looks perfect on my screen. > > > > Is it possible that the video display is affected by the kernel > > parameters that I am passing at boot [pci=noacpi timesource=acpi_pm] ? > > > > Suggestions anyone? > > Most monitors have a menu button that allows you to adjust settings and > the like. It may be that Fedora has set to something that is just not > optimal for. > > Check your monitor model number through Google and see what the true > resolution for the monitor is and set the resolution to that value. You > could be set to some setting that does not adjust well to the actual > resolution of the monitor. (For example, my laptop is 1920x1200. If I > set it below that it looks weird.) > > You also might find the display panel and set it for "Generic LCD monitor" > with the proper resolution for your display. It is possible that X is > giving it bogus information thinking it is a tube type monitor. ---- I'm thinking that the problem is the 'radeon' xorg driver. Anyone using this driver on Fedora 8 and happy with the display? Craig
