Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 24 01:05:59 UTC 2010


Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>   
>> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>>     
>>> James,
>>>
>>> My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video
>>> driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally found
>>> the 'gtf' utility which computed the required modeline. I wrote a custom
>>> xorg.conf file for Fedora 13. If Fedora 8 uses xorg (I don't remember),
>>> it should work for you.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Re-installed and now my video is still 'messed' up.   Where can I find 
>> the gtf utility?
>>     
>
> James,
>
> It's /usr/bin/gtf. If not installed, 'yum install xorg-x11-server-Xorg'.
>
>   
Thank you.  Now I'll have to find the package...

James McKenzie



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