fglrx 7.12 resolution problem

[David Hough]

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 12:42 +0100, Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 10:00 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
> [snip]
> > forget about modesetting, somehow fglrx won't accept that. So to get
> > back my sharp resolution I had to switch to VESA (radeonhd, we are
> > really waiting for you!)
> 
> Afaik the widescreen bug (16:9 screens) was noted in the 7.12 release
> notes. Revert to 7.11 if you want your original widescreen resolution
> back and wait yet another month for the ati developers to fix this
> appalling regression. Or try the ati or radeonhd driver. The ati driver
> works fine for me on F8 & a X1300 mobile GPU. Suspend/resume even works
> properly but it does not have 3D acceleration.
> 
I bumped my head on this one yesterday. I'm afraid my solution when I noted 
the bug was to swap out my ATI card for my spare nVidia card. It's not 
quite as high spec but at least it lets me use 1680x1050.

Dave