Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

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"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Sent: Aug 23, 2010 8:37 PM
>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install
>
>
>On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:05 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>> >   
>> >> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>> >>     
>> >>> James,
>> >>>
>> >>> My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video
>> >>> driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally found
>> >>> the 'gtf' utility which computed the required modeline. I wrote a custom
>> >>> xorg.conf file for Fedora 13. If Fedora 8 uses xorg (I don't remember),
>> >>> it should work for you.
>> >>>   
>> >>>       
>> >> Re-installed and now my video is still 'messed' up.   Where can I find 
>> >> the gtf utility?
>> >>     
>> >
>> > James,
>> >
>> > It's /usr/bin/gtf. If not installed, 'yum install xorg-x11-server-Xorg'.
>> >
>> >   
>> Thank you.  Now I'll have to find the package...
>
>James,
>
>No, you don't. If you have /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo, yum
>will find & fetch it for you.
>
This particular system is not on the Internet.  It was right were you said it would be.  Unfortunately, more is needed to get 1600x1200 working on this old system.  Vesa drivers work 'just' fine for what I'm going to be doing anyway.

James McKenzie

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