1680x1050 resolution not working (Fedora Core 2, Dell Inspiron 8600, WSXGA+)

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Florian Burkart wrote:

> I just installed FC2 (first time with linux) and am trying to get the
> 1680x1050 resolution to work. There are plenty of posts about this, and they
> all kind of match themselves, so that should be pretty straight forward.

a bit of a digression, is there any sane rationale to the myriad of 
acronyms for display resolution?  the last two times i went looking to 
buy a laptop (from dell), i was thoroughly annoyed that they'll list, 
right up front, that a unit has something like XGA, or SXGA, or XGA+, 
or UXGA or whatever.  and all i want to know is, what is the freaking 
resolution in pixels?

is there a standard for these acronyms?  and does everyone follow that 
standard, or do we have vendors just making this stuff up out of thin 
air?  i fully expect to see new laptops offering SDXGA (sooper dooper 
XGA) as the next available resolution.

is there a list?  who do i have to kill to read it?

rday