Wide, flat, & weird : HP w2207h with F8 & F9
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Sun Jun 22 22:36:52 UTC 2008
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:05:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Is there some secret driver somewhere that I should be getting?
>
> Depends on what driver you have now. The "nv" driver has problems with
> lots of video cards and monitors:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234824
>
> as does the potential replacement "nouveau" driver:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447526
>
> So, if you have an nvidia card, the best bet for a working driver is to
> add the livna repo and download the kmod-nvidia driver.
>
> You could take a look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and see if is says
> things like "Oh look, I'm supposed to run this display at 1680x1050, but
> I don't think that's a good idea" :-).
Hmmm ... I *think* the PackageKit in F9 (when it get to it) will
let me do that with a couple of clicks. I know there's a way to add livna
to F8 -- I've done it -- but it's been a while. I *think* I browse to
livna.org, download an rpm, install it, and then just use yum as always,
with one more file yum.repos.d; I'll check those things, and if it's so,
I'm golden -- no reply required. If I'm confused, prithee divulge one
more such excellent clue!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list