problem with 1680x1050 resolution

[Phil]

I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915

I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's recommended
resolution.

I have installed the latest i810 drivers for my card still no luck...

Any help would be appreciated.

[Phil]

Sorry I forgot to say that I have tried using system-config-display by
setting the correct resolution and monitor.

I tried using the modeline generator but perhaps I am not familiar enough
with it, but that did not work either.

On 4/26/07, Phil  wrote:
> I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915
>
> I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's recommended
> resolution.
>
> I have installed the latest i810 drivers for my card still no luck...
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

[Frank Cox]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:37:41 -0400
Phil  wrote:
> I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915
>
> I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's recommended
> resolution.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-March/msg00728.html

[Phil]

unfortunately this does not seem to work for me...

On 4/26/07, Frank Cox  wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:37:41 -0400
> Phil  wrote:
> > I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915
> >
> > I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's recommended
> > resolution.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-March/msg00728.html
>
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[Frank Cox]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:03:52 -0400
Phil  wrote:
> unfortunately this does not seem to work for me...

Which part?  Post the exact steps that you took and what the results were at
each stage.  For example, what is the relevant output from
your /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

[Phil Meyer]

Phil wrote:
> I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915
>
> I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's 
> recommended resolution.
>
> I have installed the latest i810 drivers for my card still no luck...
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

You are probably trying too hard.  Fedora has had for several years a 
couple of fundamental problems with divining proper display settings.  
Many have beenn fixed, but many yet remain.

Here are some suggestions.

Disable Red Hat Graphical Boot (rggb).
    Edit /etc/grub.conf (/boot/grub/grub.conf) and remove all 
occurrences of rhgb

Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and let it be generated on the next boot.  The 
first time it is generated it can be confused by rhgb.  The firstboot 
startup script will recognize that your mionitor is not configured

Now then.  Still troubles?  (check with xdpyinfo | grep dimensions:)

Your monitor did not respond correctly to the EDID request.
Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for EDID.  The three or four lines 
above the EDID line are the responses.  Are they correct?  If not, then 
you get to calculate a Modeline for your monitor.  The Modeline goes 
into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

For example, the Dell 2405FPW responds with a frequency that is .5 too 
low to allow an automatic calculation of 1920x1200.

So I had to force it not to check:

Option      "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck"

Your mileage may vary, but almost all of the current X11R7 video drivers 
can read a EDID and do the right thing, if the monitor responds correctly.

Good luck!

[Phil]

Thanks for your help.. however I have had too many problems with Fedora
recently for fundamentally easy things and Ubuntu was no better... I know
there are fixes for these issues but I just do not have the time to spend
two days trying to get my 22" monitor to work...when in Windows it works in
about 15 seconds... I will keep using Fedora however it will be in a VM
machine under windows for now...

On 4/26/07, Phil Meyer  wrote:
> Phil wrote:
> > I am using FC6 and my video car is the Intel915
> >
> > I cannot get my new E228WFP dell 22" monitor to work at it's
> > recommended resolution.
> >
> > I have installed the latest i810 drivers for my card still no luck...
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> You are probably trying too hard.  Fedora has had for several years a
> couple of fundamental problems with divining proper display settings.
> Many have beenn fixed, but many yet remain.
>
> Here are some suggestions.
>
> Disable Red Hat Graphical Boot (rggb).
>     Edit /etc/grub.conf (/boot/grub/grub.conf) and remove all
> occurrences of rhgb
>
> Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and let it be generated on the next boot.  The
> first time it is generated it can be confused by rhgb.  The firstboot
> startup script will recognize that your mionitor is not configured
>
> Now then.  Still troubles?  (check with xdpyinfo | grep dimensions:)
>
> Your monitor did not respond correctly to the EDID request.
> Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for EDID.  The three or four lines
> above the EDID line are the responses.  Are they correct?  If not, then
> you get to calculate a Modeline for your monitor.  The Modeline goes
> into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>
> For example, the Dell 2405FPW responds with a frequency that is .5 too
> low to allow an automatic calculation of 1920x1200.
>
> So I had to force it not to check:
>     Option      "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck"
>
> Your mileage may vary, but almost all of the current X11R7 video drivers
> can read a EDID and do the right thing, if the monitor responds correctly.
>
> Good luck!
>
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[Michael Wiktowy]

On 4/29/07, Phil  wrote:
> Thanks for your help.. however I have had too many problems with Fedora
> recently for fundamentally easy things and Ubuntu was no better... I know
> there are fixes for these issues but I just do not have the time to spend
> two days trying to get my 22" monitor to work...when in Windows it works in
> about 15 seconds... I will keep using Fedora however it will be in a VM
> machine under windows for now...

I have had monitor resolution issues before and the two things that I do are:
- make sure you are not going through a KVM switch
- delete (or move) xorg.conf and let it get autogenerated on X startup
(now) or using X -configure (in the past)

That has solved my problems every time so far. YMMV.

/Mike

[oleksandr korneta]

on 04/29/2007 06:02 PM Phil wrote:
> Thanks for your help.. however I have had too many problems with Fedora
> recently for fundamentally easy things and Ubuntu was no better... I know
> there are fixes for these issues but I just do not have the time to spend
> two days trying to get my 22" monitor to work...when in Windows it works in
> about 15 seconds... I will keep using Fedora however it will be in a VM
> machine under windows for now...

when I bought my E207WFP it took me the same 15 seconds to run
nvidia-settings and make it autodetect both monitors (20" LCD and 17"
CRT) and TV connected. All the resolutions were detected and set
properly. I just had to decide whether I want my desktop to be spanned
among these or have separate screens.

Maybe I am just lucky to use nvidia card...

[Donald Arseneau]

oleksandr korneta  writes:
> on 04/29/2007 06:02 PM Phil wrote:
> > Thanks for your help.. however I have had too many problems with Fedora
> > recently for fundamentally easy things and Ubuntu was no better... I know
> > there are fixes for these issues but I just do not have the time to spend
> > two days trying to get my 22" monitor to work...when in Windows it works in
> > about 15 seconds... I will keep using Fedora however it will be in a VM
> > machine under windows for now...
>
> when I bought my E207WFP it took me the same 15 seconds to run
> nvidia-settings and make it autodetect ...

I recently set up a whole bunch of computers with E207WFP displays,
most using onboard graphics with the Intel 965 chipset.

I had to use OpenSuse for the more recent (pre)release of Xorg,
including an "i810beta" driver.  OpenSuse handled all components
well, except for the front sound connections.

I couldn't get Fedora 6 to work with the graphics.

On a couple of similar computers with Nvidia graphics cards, the
monitors were handled fine.  However, Fedora 6 needed lots of kernel
parameters to handle optical drives ans such.  (One is still running 
F6.)  Some of these issues are long-standing and they are a black
mark on Fedora.

The Windows Vista installations didn't handle the graphics either;
they needed driver updates from the Intel website to handle the
displays.  The second Vista install didn't work even with a download
(slightly different driver version).  It was only a few days ago that 
I got a yet-newer driver and the display resolution got straightened
out.  So Windows has trouble too.