[wplug] XFree86 on dell with lcd (e173fp)

[Vanco, Don]

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>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of John Harrold
>Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 3:37 PM
>To: western PA LUG
>Subject: [wplug] XFree86 on dell with lcd (e173fp)
>
>
>
>There are some fellow grad students over here with a new Dell computer.
>They have installed fedora core (3 I believe). The problem 
>they are having
>is that X will only come up at 800x600. The monitor is a flat panel/lcd
>thing (model e173fp) and the video is an integrated chip (i810 
>driver Intel
>865 chip). 
>
>The first thing I thought to do is pop in a knoppix cd and let it
>autodetect the hardware. However, knoppix only ran at 800x600 
>also. Then I
>went to Dell's website and found the specs on the monitor:
>
>http://www1.us.dell.com/content/learnmore/learnmore.aspx?c=us&c
>s=19&l=en&s=dhs&~id=monitors&~mode=popup&~series=optix&~subcat=
>entry&~tab=details
>
>Which indicates that it should have vertical and horizontal 
>refresh rates
>of 56-76Hz and 31-63kHz, respectively.  I tried changing to 
>these manually,
>but it still only pushes video at 800x600.
>
>Anyone have any advice on this one?

	What are you using to make the config changes?  I have not
messed with FC3 at all, but found their counterparts in Red Hat Desktop
to be rather clunky.  Can you set it for "Generic LCD 1024x768) and get
anything out of it?  I found  Ihad to run the config tools with some
option like --reconfigure to keep it from getting it's brains scrambled
by reading the current (and broken) config.

Good luck -
Don