Apple 30" Monitor

[Konstantin Svist]

Not sure about the actual resolution, but as far as fuzzy fonts go, you 
should change anti-aliasing setting.
In Control Center go to Appearance & Themes -> Fonts. There's a 
Configure button next to "Use anti-aliasing for fonts". Play around with 
those settings and see which one works better for you. My favorite is 
Use sub-pixel hinting RGB and Hinting style set at Full.
Note that only newly-launched applications will use these settings.
Also, I'm using FC6 with KDE, so apologies if you don't have the applet 
in the same place.



As far as resolution, have you tried adding your resolution to Display 
subsection like so:

          SubSection "Display"
                  Viewport   0 0
                  Depth     24
                  Modes     "2560x1600"
          EndSubSection






Michael J. McGillick wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I'm running Fedora 7 on a Mac Pro with an ATI Radeon X1900 XT and an Apple
> 30" HD Cinema LCD monitor. I've been doing a lot of reading on how to
> properly set up my xorg.conf file, however, I've not been able to get very
> far. I'd appreciate any help, or pointers in the right direction.
> 
> The problems I'm having are:
> 
>  - The highest resolution that the I can set through System > Administration
>> Display is 1920 x 1440 (This monitor supports 2560x1600).
> 
>  - In all resolutions, the font is incredibly fuzzy. I have to leave the
> monitor set at 1280x1024, as any higher resolution and the text is
> unreadable.
> 
>  - The background graphics and images are also fuzzy.
> 
> 
> To date, here is what I've done:
> 
>  - Installed Fedora - In the Gnome desktop, if I go to System >
> Administration > Display, on the Hardware tab, I'm told that the monitor
> type is Cinema HD (autoconfigured) and the Video Card is ATI Technologies
> Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] (Primary). This leads me to believe that the
> Fedora installer recognized my hardware.
> 
>  - Examined xorg.conf - If I look in xorg.conf, I see a listing for vesa
> instead of the Radeon driver. I did some reading and apparently there is a
> problem with the current 8.37.6 version of the ATI driver in that it
> segfaults the X server. (Please correct me if my understanding is wrong)
> 
>  - Followed several different threads that talk about similar problems to
> mine, but never a solution posted. In many cases, the user had the same
> graphics card as mine, but not the same monitor.
> 
>  - Researched how to configure an LCD monitor in xorg.conf only to learn
> that most LCD monitors do not have a refresh rate in the traditional sense,
> and so you can leave the entire monitor section out of xorg.conf.
> Apparently it gets detected automatically.
> 
> I'm a new user and would really like to be able to get up and running.
> As with any new user, I'm frustrated that I haven't been able to figure it
> out on my own. At this point, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, and could
> really use some help.
> 
> The xorg.conf that got created was:
> 
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "vesa"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> - Michael
> 
>