Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Tue Aug 24 03:37:41 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:05 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> 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,

No, you don't. If you have /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo, yum
will find & fetch it for you.

--Doc



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