Mactellers, I just subscribed to this list, with the hope that someone might have some insight into a problem I am having.
I have a Mac Pro tower with a 30 inch cinema display, which has a native resolution of 2560x1600. The video card is an ATI-1900. In OSX and Windoze, this resolution is supported with no fuss, but in linux, no amount of fiddling with the xorg.conf file has so far gotten this resolution to work. I probably diddled with my xorg.conf for about 8 hours. No joy. I am using the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which installs from CD quite easily. In my case, Linux is installed on a separate hard drive. If anyone has gotten the 30 inch display to work with any flavor of linux on a Mac, I would be interested in how you configured your xorg.conf file. In the meantime, If I figure this out, I'll post the solution here. I have seen reports online from a couple of people who got this working, but they were using an NVidia video card, not the ATI 1900. Just a little more info: I was able to get EDID to give me a proper modeline, but it appears that the VESA driver just can't support 2560x1600. If I switch to the video driver from VESA to the ATI included with the linux install, I get a black screen. I made one attempt to get a new driver at ATI's web site, but I was unable to get the driver installed. The install process was typically Linux-difficult, and with no good feeling that the "new" driver was going to solve my problem, I got discouraged and gave up, for the time being. Thanks, Walter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
