1680x1050 resolution not working (Fedora Core 2, Dell Inspiron 8600, WSXGA+)
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Mon Aug 16 17:35:07 UTC 2004
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Florian Burkart wrote:
> I just installed FC2 (first time with linux) and am trying to get the
> 1680x1050 resolution to work. There are plenty of posts about this, and they
> all kind of match themselves, so that should be pretty straight forward.
a bit of a digression, is there any sane rationale to the myriad of
acronyms for display resolution? the last two times i went looking to
buy a laptop (from dell), i was thoroughly annoyed that they'll list,
right up front, that a unit has something like XGA, or SXGA, or XGA+,
or UXGA or whatever. and all i want to know is, what is the freaking
resolution in pixels?
is there a standard for these acronyms? and does everyone follow that
standard, or do we have vendors just making this stuff up out of thin
air? i fully expect to see new laptops offering SDXGA (sooper dooper
XGA) as the next available resolution.
is there a list? who do i have to kill to read it?
rday
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