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@xxxxxxxx> 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 I'd suggest that the assumptions are well out of date and should be 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. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
