Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 137471
Installer doesn't offer resolutions to match monitor
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:32 EDT
Description of problem: HP Pavillion zd7260us 17" widescreen display NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 1. During the install, specify the monitor as a generic laptop monitor that supports 1680x1050. 2. Click the combo box to select a resolution. 3. There are no appropriate widescreen resolutions available, not even 1680x1050 (the one specified in the name of the monitor). To make matters even worse, if you select 1600x1200 (which I did), when the desktop starts up the bottom of the screen (containing all the actions necessary to do anything - including logging out!) is not visible. To further complicate things, X doesn't scroll the desktop if you mouse to the edge of the screen (as I've seen it do when this happens in other distros). These factors make installing FC3Test3 on a widescreen laptop pretty messy.
*** Bug 137473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Adding UseModes support for non-standard ratios is todo for FC4 lifetime. Can you paste the output of running as root kudzu -p -b ddc
Widescreen laptops are available pretty much everywhere these days. I just walked into a brick and mortar store and bought one. So it's a bit of a stretch to call them "non-standard" ratios. I prefer to call them "current", "new", or "sweet-assed". :) Anyway, FC3 is totally unusable on this laptop anyway. No network (wireless) support, no video (this crappy resolution problem), and no power management. :-/ This seemed like the simplest to fix of the problems. I expected it would just require a couple lines of text in a metadata file somewhere; figures everything has to be harder than that. Anywho, here's the "kudzu -p -b ddc" output: - class: VIDEO bus: DDC detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "NVIDIA Corporation NV36 Board - e183n-sw" mem: 65536
Possibly however it's non-standard in terms of the basic X modes used. Time constraints meant that the additional work for this did not make FC3, I fully intend to try and release an errata/update as soon as I can post un-freeze. I can't comment for your laptops wireless support - I assume it's a mini-pci card of the Broadcom chipset which there are no OSS drivers for, as for power managment it depends on the ACPI implementation of the laptop - it may be possible to get S3 suspend working but you'll probably have to use th proprietory NVidia driver. The panel is unprobable as we only get video card details from DDC. Can you test the following: Add this modes section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Modes" Identifier "16:10" # 1280x800 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 62.62 kHz; pclk: 107.21 MHz Modeline "1280x800" 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835 # 1280x800 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 71.40 kHz; pclk: 123.38 MHz Modeline "1280x800" 123.38 1280 1368 1504 1728 800 801 804 840 # 1280x800 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 84.80 kHz; pclk: 147.89 MHz Modeline "1280x800" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848 # 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 # 1680x1050 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 82.20 kHz; pclk: 188.07 MHz Modeline "1680x1050" 188.07 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1096 # 1680x1050 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 93.76 kHz; pclk: 214.51 MHz Modeline "1680x1050" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103 # 1680x1050 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 111.20 kHz; pclk: 256.20 MHz Modeline "1680x1050" 256.20 1680 1808 1992 2304 1050 1051 1054 1112 # 1920x1200 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 93.97 kHz; pclk: 246.59 MHz Modeline "1920x1200" 246.59 1920 2064 2272 2624 1200 1201 1204 1253 # 1920x1200 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 107.10 kHz; pclk: 282.74 MHz Modeline "1920x1200" 282.74 1920 2072 2280 2640 1200 1201 1204 1260 # 1920x1200 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 127.10 kHz; pclk: 337.58 MHz Modeline "1920x1200" 337.58 1920 2072 2288 2656 1200 1201 1204 1271 EndSection and change the Section "Monitor" block to contain the line: UseModes "16:10" Then in the Display section ensure you have the desired 1680x1050 mode listed. Does this provide the desired resolution filling the panel?
Yep. That gives me the resolution to match the monitor.
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Does this work any better in xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-24 or later?
Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version for which this bug is confirmed. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier.