Wide, flat, & weird : HP w2207h with F8 & F9

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net> wrote:

> From: Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net>
> Subject: Re: Wide, flat, & weird : HP w2207h with F8 & F9
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 12:25 PM
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:33:55 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> 	[...]
> > The DMI data doesn't come from the various pieces
> of hardware
> > themselves. It's all stored in a memory on the
> motherboard, so it
> > doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what
> hardware is actually
> > installed. It seems only big corporations have tools
> to write to the DMI
> > memory.
> > 
> >> 	Is there something else I should be looking for??
> What I know of
> >> hardware would go in a gnat's eye -- and never
> discommode the gnat.
> > 
> > Try running lspci and looking for words like
> "display", "graphics" and
> > "VGA".
> 
> 	On the #1 machine : 
> 
> 	=====		=====		=====
> 
> [root at localhost btth]# lspci|grep VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> K8M890 
> [Chrome9] Integrated Video (rev 01)
> [root at localhost btth]#

It appears to be the same as mine:
[root at localhost ~]# lspci|grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890 [Chrome9] Integrated Video (rev 11)
[root at localhost ~]# 

Start you machine in level 3, you shall see the difference.  Read my other post, it will tell you my experience.

Regards,

Antonio 

> 	=====		=====		=====
> 
> 	But there is later, better info -- which I have just
> posted here, 
> under the thread "Re: Fedora 9 Openchrome drv HP
> w2207h Monitor" 
> 
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