Fedora core 6 and widescreen monitors?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:48:44 -0400
>
> Terry Zink <tzink at logicworks.net> wrote:
> > Before I unplug my workstation here and switch over to this widescreen
> > LCD, anyone have any idea how well fedora is at detecting non standard
> > (aka widescreen) resolutions?
>
> Depends on the monitor. FC7 has better auto config stuff in X than FC6,
> but it isn't too difficult unless you have an ATI card with problems
> keeping a signal coming out the DVI cable :-).
>
> For various useful tidbits scattered among the rant, see:
>
> http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html
>
> The important bit is that you can get X to tell you what modeline the
> EDID info claims you need in the log file, then you cut & paste the info
> into the xorg.conf file. It isn't too difficult (though it boggles the
> mind that it took so long for X to do the cut & paste for you :-).

When I first got my laptop I had a display problem.  Someone told me about a 
package called 'gtf'.  That, as I understand it, queries your hardware and 
gives you modeline that will work.  It completely cured the problem for me.

Anne
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