RE: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-04-07 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
Monday, April 5, 2010 8:10 AM From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au To: Community support for Fedora users

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Dave Higton wrote: I'd suggest that the assumptions are well out of date and should be re-thought.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,

RE: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-04-05 Thread Tim
Dave Higton: You're lucky with your CRTs. The ones I've seen that were a few years old, had bad screen burn, plus a nasty colour cast as one of the electron guns had lost emission. I was glad to have my last CRT monitor replaced here (by an LCD) because it had bad Moiré patterning, which

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-04-01 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:25:48PM -0400, Margaret Doll wrote: We are trying to attach a Dell E2210H monitor to a Dell X260 Optiplex which is running 2.6.10-1.771_FC2. I have found the drivers for Windows but not for Fedora. Where can I access monitor drivers for Fedora? As noted in

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Steven I Usdansky wrote: We are trying to attach a Dell E2210H monitor to a Dell X260 Optiplex which is running 2.6.10-1.771_FC2. See: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/easy-linux.html for my experiences with X mode lines

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread 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

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:38:50 -0400, Margaret Doll margaret_d...@brown.edu wrote: 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

RE: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Higton
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

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 14:23:07 +0100, Dave Higton dave.hig...@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

RE: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Higton
On 2010-03-31 Bruno Wolff wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 14:23:07 +0100, Dave Higton dave.hig...@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

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread 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.hig...@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

RE: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:23 +0100, Dave Higton wrote: Who uses CRT monitors nowadays? I still do, they look better. And I'm not about to throw away monitors that are working well, for outrageously overpriced, and crappy LCD monitors that might die off within two years. The hype about lifetimes

RE: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Higton
On 2010-03-31 Tim wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:23 +0100, Dave Higton wrote: Who uses CRT monitors nowadays? I still do, they look better. And I'm not about to throw away monitors that are working well, for outrageously overpriced, and crappy LCD monitors that might die off within

Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-30 Thread Margaret Doll
We are trying to attach a Dell E2210H monitor to a Dell X260 Optiplex which is running 2.6.10-1.771_FC2. I have found the drivers for Windows but not for Fedora. Where can I access monitor drivers for Fedora? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Margaret Doll margaret_d...@brown.edu wrote: We are trying to attach a Dell E2210H monitor to a Dell X260 Optiplex which is running 2.6.10-1.771_FC2. I have found the drivers for Windows but not for Fedora.  Where can I access monitor drivers for Fedora? With

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-30 Thread Margaret Doll
On Mar 30, 2010, at 3:34 PM, mike cloaked wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Margaret Doll margaret_d...@brown.edu wrote: We are trying to attach a Dell E2210H monitor to a Dell X260 Optiplex which is running 2.6.10-1.771_FC2. I have found the drivers for Windows but not for Fedora.

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-30 Thread jack craig
Personally, i am unclear why you put so much effort into what was already observed to be an ancient os version? are you making grade points for maintaining bitrot? :-P you knock yourself out to fix such a small issues only to find may others may lurk. more current FC version will undoubted

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 17:04:26 -0400, Margaret Doll margaret_d...@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