Fedora core 6 and widescreen monitors?

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:48:44 -0400
Terry Zink <tzink at logicworks.net> wrote:

> Before I unplug my workstation here and switch over to this widescreen LCD, anyone have any idea how well fedora is at detecting non standard (aka widescreen) resolutions?

Depends on the monitor. FC7 has better auto config stuff in X than FC6,
but it isn't too difficult unless you have an ATI card with problems
keeping a signal coming out the DVI cable :-).

For various useful tidbits scattered among the rant, see:

http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html

The important bit is that you can get X to tell you what modeline the
EDID info claims you need in the log file, then you cut & paste the info
into the xorg.conf file. It isn't too difficult (though it boggles the
mind that it took so long for X to do the cut & paste for you :-).