Problems with external display

[Ed Smits]

Thanks. It's fixed. I did the commenting out you mentioned but was
sidetracked by my boss, forgot to test if that was enough. I then
installed kmod-fglrx, enabled it and restarted X. Whichever it was did
the trick, my display setup is perfect.

Cheers!

ED

On 10/16/06, Kwan Lowe <kwan at digitalhermit.com> wrote:
> > I have a Latitude D600 with the infamous ATI Radeon card. I just did a
> > complete rebuild of my system (FC5) and can't get the external monitor
> > to work.
> [snip]
> >
> > This happened with my last install too at one point, but a reboot
> > fixed the problem. No such luck this time around.
>
> I have an Inspiron 600m and experienced the same issue. It has some sort of Radeon,
> but I don't know the specifics. My external does 1280x1024 but was showing only
> 1024x768. To fix, I manually edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and added
> "1280x1024" in the Display section for the second monitor and disabled the HorizSync
> and VertRefresh (commented them out) so that it could auto-detect.  E.g.:
>
> Find the line that reads
> ....   "1024x768"  "800x600"
>
> Change to
>        "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
>
> Comment out the HorizSync and VertRefresh for the external.
>