[wplug] XFree86 on dell with lcd (e173fp)

[Bryon Gill]

Let me add that some newer monitors seem to require special modelines, for 
instance my laptop monitor that runs natively at 1440x900.  X has a very large 
set of default modelines to try, but there are some odd ones (particularly on 
monitors with odd aspect ratios) that require very specific modelines to work 
properly.  I ultimately had to put a special modeline entry into my X config 
file to make it work, if you google for your model a little more you might find 
one that works.

Good luck,

Bryon

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Vanco, Don wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>
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