fedora fc2 problem with display color depth and resolution
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Feb 21 17:34:44 UTC 2005
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:27:24PM -0500, Shailan Mohan wrote:
> Im using a Dell UltraScan P991 monitor and Fedora Core 2 on a
> Dell machine with a Pentium 4 processor. I cant get both
> 1024x768 resolution and color depth more than 8 together.
[...]
> Also, how can i determine if i have the right driver installed
> for this monitor?
The monitor isn't really the important thing; it's the video card. Any
decent modern monitor can do reasonably high resolutions, and they all work
basically the same. So, here's the important part:
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "i810"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "Intel 865"
> EndSection
And this should easily support the basic modes you want. Have you tried
re-running 'system-config-display'?
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