need PreferredMode troubleshooting help [solved]

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 01:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-06-20 21:03 (GMT-0700) T.C. Hollingsworth composed:
> 
> Thank you!!! :-D
> 
> > What desktop are you using, then?
> 
> On 2013-06-20 22:56 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:
> ...
> > .fonts
> > .gstreamer-0.10
> > .gtkrc-2.0-kde4
> > .kde
> > .kderc
> > .local
> ...
> > KDE moved to kscreen for F19 and that might cause similar issues.
> 
> That was it. 'yum remove kscreen' wanted to remove kde-workspace. 'rpm -e 
> --nodeps kscreen' mostly fixed it. There's a strong flicker I can't recall 
> ever seeing before from the Radeon's DVI output (also in SUSE) as if running 
> below 60 refresh, while actually running 75, but its VGA and Intel's output 
> work normally. 'zypper se -s reen' finds no similar 13.1 package for 4.10.4.
> 
> Now the questions have become:
> 
> 1-why is it required for single display F19 KDE users?
> 
> 2-does it need to by default usurp xorg.conf directives?

KDE has a checkbox for *everything in the world*, so I'm sure you can
reverse/reconfigure it somewhere. I haven't used it, but I'm assuming it
can set resolution and refresh rate as well as multi-monitor
positioning, hence useful for single monitors.
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