Description of problem: There's no options for widescreen Laptop Displays listed under Dell. Options exist for: Dell 1024x768 Laptop Display Panel Dell 1280x1024 Laptop Display Panel Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel Dell 1600x1200 Laptop Display Panel The following resolutions should also be included: Dell 1280x800 Laptop Display Panel Dell 1440x900 Laptop Display Panel Dell 1600x1050 Laptop Display Panel Dell 1920x1200 Laptop Display Panel
Soeren -- did you add these when you synced up the list in rhpl?
I'm not seeing any listing for these monitors in the current list (after an update in rawhide today). I don't mean to harp, but given how common these screen sizes are on Dell laptops these days (and that Dell is a very popular brand) it would be great to have this addressed. While the screens do work, the way the current setting are cause all sorts of screen artifacts that make things look (and act) very broken.
Also, while this is being addressed, could I suggest that the display names get changed to: Dell Laptop Display Panel <width x height> This would result in all the Laptop Diplay options appearing in the same chunk of the listing, instead of being intermingled with other Dell monitors with similar model numbers to the screen sizes.
In Rawhide you should be able to select those resolutions from under "Generic LCD Display". Updating the Dell monitors would have to be done in hwdata, so reassigning there.
Would need some sort of INF for the Dell monitors before we could add specific entries.
Just a heads up. I'm trying to find the INF file for this, but not having a lot of luck. I've not got Windows installed on the machine and the disks they provide are all exe files that I imagine are just wrapped zip files, but I'm unable to open them regardless. I'm going to post a request for the file on the fedora-test list and see if someone can come up with the goods.
Created attachment 114620 [details] Results from inf2mondb.py for Dell monitors not in MonitorsDB I downloaded all of the files in http://ftp.us.dell.com/monitors/, except for those that looked like language variations, expanded them, ran the .inf files through inf2mondb.py, and removed the lines that are already in MonitorsDB (hwdata-0.145-1). The result was these 29 lines. As noted on fedora-test-list, I don't have any of these monitors. (I'm just trying to teach myself Python.)
Created attachment 114621 [details] MonitorsDB entries derived from Windows XP monitor*.inf files And while we're at it, here are some additional monitors that Windows XP knows about. Judging by the EDIDs (inf2mondb.py's name for them), none of these are in MonitorsDB, either. Look out for EDID HWP22C8; there are 2 entries and the hsync and vsync numbers are slightly different. Probably best to leave it out of MonitorsDB completely. Also look out for lines beginning with "(Standard monitor types)". These look like generic entries. The entries aren't in any particular order. They're just the way they came out of the 8 monitor*.inf files.
All the Dell monitors are in the MonitorsDB now that were list in your comment #7. The ones from comment #8 are partially already in the DB, so i need to filter out whats duplicate and whats new. Also, the problem is that e.g. Sony monitores are identified as SONY Corporation now etc, so a big manual cleanup of those additional monitors would be needed anyway. I've saved the file in my hwdata CVS and see to include them over time. As the original request has been done i'm closing this bug as fixed in rawhide. Read ya, Phil