FC5 & Dell 2007FPW - Anybody got widescreen?

[Philip Prindeville]

Philip Prindeville wrote:

>Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
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>>Em Terça 04 Julho 2006 23:41, Craig White escreveu:
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>>>On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 11:37 +0900, Naoki wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 08:09 -0700, Craig White wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:17 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
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>>>>>>Naoki wrote:
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>>>>>>>Howdy all,
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>>>>>>>Anybody managed to get 1680x1050 as an available resolution in
>>>>>>>'gnome-display-properties' ?
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>>>>>>>I'm running an intel 945G graphics chip and all I get is 1600x1200
>>>>>>>with no widescreen options.
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>>>>>>>If anybody knows the magic xorg.conf hack I'd be very happy to hear
>>>>>>>it.
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>>>>>>>Cheers.
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>>>>>>Good luck. I've tired bios hacks, alternate drivers, and dozens of
>>>>>>configs with the same monitor and chip set. I think it's impossible.
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>>>>>what do you have in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (screen section ?)
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>>>>Right now :
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>>>>Section "Screen"
>>>>        Identifier "Screen0"
>>>>        Device     "Videocard0"
>>>>        Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>>>        DefaultDepth     24
>>>>        SubSection "Display"
>>>>                Viewport   0 0
>>>>                Depth     24
>>>>                Modes    "1680x1050"
>>>>        EndSubSection
>>>>EndSection
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>>>Then I gather the other reply about mode not supported by BIOS is
>>>probably appropriate - perhaps you only need to give it more RAM
>>>(presuming on board video from on board RAM) or BIOS upgrade or it's
>>>possible that the onboard video will never support that mode.
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>>That software I mentioned, 915resolution, can replace an unused BIOS video 
>>mode by the one he wants in RAM, for Intel 915 and 945 chipsets. Of course, 
>>it needs to be executed everytime the machine is booted. It would be 
>>appropriate to do it in rc.local.
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>>[]'s
>>Marcelo
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>Grab:
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>ftp://ftp.redfish-solutions.com/pub/915resolution-0.5.2-2.i386.rpm
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>(or conversely, grab the .src rpm if you want).
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>This repackaging will create entries in /etc/sysconfig and /etc/rc.d/init.d/
>to integrate a little better on RH/FC than the version you get from the
>author.
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>Oh, and I've found that Dell makes LCD monitors that frequently have
>slightly incorrect DDC parameters.  To use a 2005FWP over VGA, for
>instance, I had to use:
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>ModeLine     "1680x1050 (Dell')" 146.2 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1091
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>and not the:
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>ModeLine     "1680x1050 (Dell)" 146.2 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089
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>that the DDC reported (or else the top 3 scan lines would be off-screen).
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>I've had similar issues with a Dell 2405FPW.
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>-Philip
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Just an update:

I've taken 915resolution off my server...  though I notice from the FTP
server logs people are still looking for it there.

Instead, go to:

http://www.atrpms.net/dist/fc5/915resolution/
http://www.atrpms.net/dist/fc6/915resolution/

Note, of course, that it's only built in i386... there is no x86_64 image.

-Philip