Fedora 9 makes Linux easy

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> Obviously the reviewer doesn't need the nvidia drivers to use his
>>> display :-).
>> You don't need the proprietary driver just to use the display and every 
>> time the Xorg ABI changes, proprietary drivers lag behind.
> 
> You do when the nv driver has convinced itself it can only run
> at 1024x768:
> 
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234824

This is assigned against rawhide. If you are facing the same issue in 
Fedora 9, the bug report should be cloned or a new one should be filed.

> (The nvidia driver doesn't suffer from this confusion. 

Since it is produced by the same vendor, that is somewhat odd. Might try 
  the Nouveau driver to see if it works any better.

I really wish
> the Xorg folks would add a universal "ITellYouThreeTime" option to force
> the use of my own mode line with any driver regardless of what nonsense
> it has convinced itself of :-).

Getting stuff working without tweaking is better than having to force 
some options just to get it to work. In this case atleast, the hardware 
is returning wrong values (which is surprising common) and needs a 
blacklist/override. Preferences (system wide via administrative tools or 
user based via desktop environment) can still override the default settings.

Rahul