From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Description of problem: Any attempt to manually specify an Apple monitor in system-config-display fails because there are no Apple monitors in MonitorsDB. It should be possible to specify Apple monitors just like other monitors. Yellow Dog Linux has a patched hwdata that includes Apple monitors. However, that doesn't help when you're trying to use an Apple monitor on a DDC-challenged x86 box (a real-world situation I ran into just yesterday). Therefore I wish to merge the Yellow Dog changes upstream. I will attach a tested patch to do just that. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hwdata-0.145-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Shout "FireGL!" in a crowded Bugzilla... uh, I mean... set up Fedora Core on a box where the video card BIOS doesn't support DDC (seriously, ancient FireGL cards work very well for this). 2. Try to manually specify your Apple monitor in anaconda or system-config-display. Actual Results: No Apple monitors are listed. Expected Results: Apple monitors should be listed. Additional info:
Created attachment 106351 [details] patch: merge hwdata-0.121-1.ydl.7 MonitorsDB changes into hwdata-0.145-1 This patch adds Apple monitors to MonitorsDB. This brings hwdata-0.145 up to date with Yellow Dog Linux 4.0. I have tested this patch on an "Apple Studio Display 15 LCD (pre-2001)" connected to a Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro (with my patch from bug 108681 as well). I got a better-looking picture (due to a different refresh rate) than with the Generic 1024x768 LCD setting.
Added in 0.146-1.