Looking for a monitor driver

[Margaret Doll]

I did get the Dell E2210H display working on an F2 system.  However,  
the display does not fill up the screen properly.
I managed to get the display working by modifying the  Section  
"Screen"/"Display"/Modes "1920x1080".  I also modified the  
"Monitor"/"Display  Size".

I noticed that the settings that I put into /etc/X11/xorg.conf seem to  
have nothing to do with the gui from System/Display.  Those Mode  
entries were "1280x960" and "1024x768" .  How is the gui and xorg.conf  
related?
	

On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 17:04:26 -0400,
>  Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't understand why the Mode entry  in /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not
>> seem to have  any relationship to the Modes shown in the System/
>> Display gui.  I coded in 1920x1080 in xorg.conf.  The Display gui
>> shows 1024xsomething and 1280x960.  Why?
>
> Probably you didn't make a 1920x1080 mode line for your monitor and  
> modes
> with that high of a resolution are not built by default.
>
> If upgrading is doable, you really want to move to a supported  
> version of
> Fedora (or perhaps something like centos). If your monitor does  
> correct
> EDID then you won't have to worry about it.