Re: X with vesa at 1680x1050 possible?

[Patrick Lists]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:59 -0600, GaryCarr wrote:
> I have had good luck installing the ATI Linux drivers on Red Hat. Try:
>
> http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html

Me too. Just got the latest drivers and they seem to work fine. Would
have preferred to use the Open Source one but I guess AMD/ATI still need
to see the light when it comes to releasing R500 code.
> Patrick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a laptop with an ATI X1300 chip and a 1680x1050 screen. Just
> > installed FC6 on it and was messing with X. The radeon driver does not
> > seem to work so I tried the vesa driver. But I can't seem to get it to
> > use 1680x1050 using the vesa driver. It insists on 1400x1050. Does
> > anyone know if the vesa driver can display 1680x1050?  If so how would I
> > make it do that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Patrick