From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: I recently had a dell dimension 8100. Geforce3, Dell FP17 Digital monitor. Redhat 7.2 recognized it just fine. Now i have a dell dimension 8200. Geforce3 TI200, Dell FP17 Digital (same monitor) it doesn't recognize/auto-detect the monitor, it does, however, see that i have a geforce3. So i swapped the video cards, put the old one back in. Same problem. I'm assuming it's something to do with the motherboard architecture since i've tested both video cards with the same monitor...no luck. I tried this with both 7.2 and Skipjack. No luck. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RedHat 7.2 or SkipJack 2. Configure X at the end of install 3. Unknown Monitor every time Actual Results: X looks all scrambled Expected Results: X should have installed just fine and been configured properly as it did with my old system. Additional info: I hope this isn't because Dell wussed out on RedHat and let microsoft stick it to them for supporting you guys. I bought a dell to run redhat soley on =( Please at least email me and let me know what's up.
okay, i installed 7.2 and it did not autodetect the monitor (it detected the same monitor/video card combo on the old dimension 8100) i installed the nvidia drivers with the dell FP1709 Digital settings in the redhat setup....display works fine...i think the problem is in the auto-detect code, only bad thing is, i can't use the nvidia drivers in the skipjack release...i don't think, my next attempt will be to do the upgrade to skipjack
okay, if I download the nvidia source rpm's and rebuild them...everything works fine under skipjack as well..i hope i've been somewhat helpful rather than just rambling
Attach your XFree86 log, XF86Config-4 config file, along with the output of "lspci -n". There are 3 reasons why one's monitor might not autodetect. 1) The monitor's EDID is not known 2) The monitor doesn't support DDC 3) The video driver doesn't support DDC If your monitor isn't in the database, please attach the manufacturer's Microsoft Windows .INF file for the monitor and I'll add it to the database. Thanks.
Hmm, it appears the first time I read this, I missed reading the last comment.. duh. Closing report as NOTABUG