FC3 + Dell WUXGA Screen + NVidia = Working Configuration

Jason McCormick jasonmc at sei.cmu.edu
Fri Nov 19 16:11:31 UTC 2004


> Hmmm...curious... I have an HP/COMPAQ nx7000 Laptop with a WUXGA
> 1689x1050 display. It has the ATI Mobil Radeon graphics set. Although FC3
> didn't recognize the "W" modes on installation, I was able to simply add
> "1680x1050" to modes in the Display section of the xorg.conf file, and it
> worked fine. My xorg.conf file didn't have any "Mode" lines like were
> shown in the file Jason attached. Perhaps he upgraded from XFree to Xorg?
> I did a fresh install of FC3 on this system. Attached is my xorg.conf
> file.

FWIW this was a 100% clean Fedora 3 install.  No upgrading or config
carry-over took place.  On FC1 I had to use the same modeline to get the
screen to work fine.

-- Jason




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