Amazing Linux victory!

[Rudolf Kastl]

2011/5/18 Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>:
> I just hooked up a Dell Zino HD via hdmi to a vizio HD TV
> and no power on earth seemed to be able to get the desktop
> to display at full width and height 1920x1080 resolution
> with the ATI video that comes with it in Windows 7.

here is the solution for your specified problem, i also came across
this when friends asked for help:
http://www.aoclarkejr.com/ati-catalyst-9-9-overcan-and-underscan-options.html
>
> Wondering if this was a vizio problem or a driver problem,

it is a settings problem with the defaults settings of the driver.

> I booted a linux live USB I happened to have around, and Bam!
> The screen comes up perfectly in full width and height
> with crisp clear edges on things and text you can read.
>
> So, for the first time ever in my experience, a linux video
> driver works out of the box better than the Windows
> drivers which seem to be the only thing the manufacturers
> care about (of course this is 64 bit windows, which
> the manufacturers may still not care about as much
> as 32 bit).
>
> I'll have to add this to the plug & play working with
> the HP scanner on my all-in-one device - also the first
> time I ever saw that happen, and on linux, not windows.

welcome to fedora/linux.

kind regards,
Rudolf Kastl

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