Dell 2005FPW Flat Panel and xorg

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Feb 23 12:37:25 UTC 2005


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Mark Derricutt wrote:
> Hi all, I just got a Dell 2005FP ( 20" widescreen flatpanel ) and 
> noticed Xorg didn't like it, nor did system-config-display.
> 
> I did manage to find a reference to this monitor in fedoraforums.com 
> which had a copy of what I needed to add to xorg.conf[1], but I was 
> wondering if support for this monitor was available in whatever 
> xorg/system-config-display is going to be in FC4?
> 
> [1] xorg.conf settings
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>    Identifier "Monitor0"
>    VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
>    ModelName "DELL 2005FPW"
>    UseModes "16:10"
>    HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
>    VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
>    Option "dpms"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Modes"
>    Identifier "16:10"
>    ModeLine "1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 \
>      -hsync -vsync
> EndSection

When you file the bug, could you also attach the monitor's .inf file from its 
CD?  There is some info there about modelines that's necessary for hwdata to 
know.

Dan




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