On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:56:33 +0000 David Hough <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 12:42 +0100, Patrick wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 10:00 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: > > [snip] > > > forget about modesetting, somehow fglrx won't accept that. So to > > > get back my sharp resolution I had to switch to VESA (radeonhd, > > > we are really waiting for you!) > > > > Afaik the widescreen bug (16:9 screens) was noted in the 7.12 > > release notes. Revert to 7.11 if you want your original widescreen > > resolution back and wait yet another month for the ati developers > > to fix this appalling regression. Or try the ati or radeonhd > > driver. The ati driver works fine for me on F8 & a X1300 mobile > > GPU. Suspend/resume even works properly but it does not have 3D > > acceleration. > > > I bumped my head on this one yesterday. I'm afraid my solution when I > noted the bug was to swap out my ATI card for my spare nVidia card. > It's not quite as high spec but at least it lets me use 1680x1050. > > Dave > It was most definately noted in the 7.12 release notes. I didn't even bother trying to install - as soon as I read it, I decided to wait until next month. https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_712_linux.html Known Issues The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These issues include: --snip-- # Connecting a display device that supports 1680x1050 to a system running Linux may result in a maximum display resolution of 1280x1024 only being available # Custom mode lines in xorg.conf may be ignored by the fglrx driver
