Looking for a monitor driver

[Margaret Doll]

Thanks for all the information.

On Mar 31, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 14:23:07 +0100,
>  Dave Higton <DAVE.HIGTON at nice.com> wrote:
>> On 2010-03-31, Bruno Wolff wrote:
>>
>>> xorg.conf can specify allowed and prefered modes for a device. If  
>>> you
>>> don't define what a device is capable of doing than some
>>> assumptions are
>>> made that will likely be safe. These safe assumptions will
>>> generally limit
>>> the frequencies allowed so that you won't be able to use 1920x1080.
>>
>> I'd suggest that the assumptions are well out of date and should be
>> re-thought.  They tend to make the display invisible because it's
>> out of the range of some modern monitors.  Who uses 640 * 480
>> nowadays?  Who uses CRT monitors nowadays?  (The "safety" issue,
>> I believe, related to CRT monitors from about 30 years ago that
>> responded badly if driven slightly out of range.)
>
> Note the original poster is talking about FC2, so it is really out  
> of date.
> With recent versions of Fedora the info is obtained from the  
> monitor, so
> that only very old monitors need xorg.conf setup.
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