Re: LCD monitor, DVI connection, resolution problem

In comp.os.linux.hardware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Vladimir Florinski <vflorins@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Some time ago I gave you a valuable piece of advice: get a GeForce-based
motherboard instead of a Radeon.
[..]

You ignored it

No, I didn't ignore it. I explained why I prefer opensource drivers and
asked you if you also prefered closed source drivers for other hardware
like network cards and scsi cards. You haven't really been able to
convince me that the advantages of the nVidia driver makes up for the
disadvantages of being closed source.

The advantage is they work and outperform anything else in terms
of 3D in order of magnitudes. Just try googleearth for Linux on
different systems. My results on halfway recent hardware (2-3GHz
CPU) YMMV:

- ATI with 3D driver on shitty built in graphics adapter: Usable
but not real fun.
- ATI without 3D driver: Dog slow (unusable).
- Nvidia with evil closed source driver: Simply rocks, a great
pleasure using.

[..]

What can I say? Perhaps Xorg developers finally learned how to program
and the bug is fixed in the latest version (7.1 at this time).

Yes, upgrading X might solve the problem. If I upgraded to 6.9 or later
the Xpress 200 chipset should have support from the opensource ati driver
so I wouldn't have to use the VESA driver.

I'd just try out using the latest xorg version or alternatively
simply another distro. Like FC5, coming with halfway recent
stuff, run 'yum update' reboot and see if this works better.

Good luck

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