Fedora core 6 and widescreen monitors?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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
> -- 

Indeed.
http://gtf.sourceforge.net/

- Gilboa