Tom Horsley wrote:
Obviously the reviewer doesn't need the nvidia drivers to use his
display :-).
You don't need the proprietary driver just to use the display and every
time the Xorg ABI changes, proprietary drivers lag behind.
You do when the nv driver has convinced itself it can only run
at 1024x768:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234824
This is assigned against rawhide. If you are facing the same issue in
Fedora 9, the bug report should be cloned or a new one should be filed.
(The nvidia driver doesn't suffer from this confusion.
Since it is produced by the same vendor, that is somewhat odd. Might try
the Nouveau driver to see if it works any better.
I really wish
the Xorg folks would add a universal "ITellYouThreeTime" option to force
the use of my own mode line with any driver regardless of what nonsense
it has convinced itself of :-).
Getting stuff working without tweaking is better than having to force
some options just to get it to work. In this case atleast, the hardware
is returning wrong values (which is surprising common) and needs a
blacklist/override. Preferences (system wide via administrative tools or
user based via desktop environment) can still override the default settings.
Rahul
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