That was a rather poor experience (the last time I fiddled with ati/fglrx and livna) but nothing I am doing is working so I am going down this path again... Craig On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:15 -0800, bruce wrote: > hey... > > i think there might be updated radeon ati drivers on the radeon website... > > > might help you out. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Craig White > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:51 PM > To: For users of Fedora > Subject: Re: looking for suggestions > > > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
