RE: looking for suggestions

downloading that too...was going to try the packaged method first...I
have a bunch of systems to maintain, this is not just a one off install.

Thanks

Craig

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:29 -0800, bruce wrote:
Hi Craig...

I'm talking about the drivers straight from the ati site...


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That was a rather poor experience (the last time I fiddled with
ati/fglrx and livna) but nothing I am doing is working so I am going
down this path again...

Craig

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:15 -0800, bruce wrote:
hey...

i think there might be updated radeon ati drivers on the radeon website...


might help you out.


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On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 15:05 -0800, alan wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Craig White wrote:

Have Dell Optiplex 320 and 19" Dell FP analog display. Motherboard
video
has ATI Embedded.

Display was OK on Fedora 7 (I tweaked it around a bit)

Upgraded to Fedora 8 - display looked weak, too bright, gamma way off,
fonts thin, ugly.

Switched to runlevel 3 and ran 'system-config-display --reconfig' and
set it up anew. Did a start X, logged in as root, still pretty bad.

Created a new local user, logged in as that user, still looked bad.
Took
a screengrab (Ksnapshot) brought it over to my usual desktop, the
screengrab looks perfect on my screen.

Is it possible that the video display is affected by the kernel
parameters that I am passing at boot [pci=noacpi timesource=acpi_pm] ?

Suggestions anyone?

Most monitors have a menu button that allows you to adjust settings and
the like. It may be that Fedora has set to something that is just not
optimal for.

Check your monitor model number through Google and see what the true
resolution for the monitor is and set the resolution to that value. You
could be set to some setting that does not adjust well to the actual
resolution of the monitor. (For example, my laptop is 1920x1200. If I
set it below that it looks weird.)

You also might find the display panel and set it for "Generic LCD
monitor"
with the proper resolution for your display. It is possible that X is
giving it bogus information thinking it is a tube type monitor.
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I'm thinking that the problem is the 'radeon' xorg driver.

Anyone using this driver on Fedora 8 and happy with the display?

Craig

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