Fedora 7 + Radeon 1950Pro + screen resolution and refresh problems

Thu Aug 30 15:43:07 UTC 2007

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:58:00 +0200,
  Antoniak Adam <Adam.Antoniak at mofnet.gov.pl> wrote:
> 
> My current screen resolution is 800x600 with refreshing rate 81Mhz. I
> cannot setup higher resolution using the graphic panel. What's more my
> monitor (NEC Multisync FE771SB) is not automatically recognized. When I
> manually configure it using the graphic panel and restart the system, I
> cannot work with Fedora as I get the warning message from my monitor
> that the refreshing rate is out of range (too high).

The monitor detection issue is almost certainly a driver bug that is supposed
to be fixed in rawhide. I don't know if the fix is supposed to get back ported
or not to f7. The work around is to manually set up your monitor after the
install.