[ltp] T61, Intel video, FC6 = widescreen troubles

[Linux NG/Lists]

OK, I'm in the same boat as Einstein's wife, when asked if she 
understood what her husband wrote. "I understand the words, but not the 
sentences." :)

> To the OP: I just want to tell you I have a T61 with a 965GM chipset
> and it works perfectly in Debian sid with 1680x1050 video, full 3D,
> the works. So it _can_ be made to work. I don't know exactly what your
> specific problem is, but a bug related to external video output was
> fixed in xf86-video-intel 2.1.1. Perhaps you should upgrade?

I could try that.... but I'm not sure where to start. I saw a bunch of 
notes on the Solaris forum when searching on how to do this, but they 
looked inappropriate. (1) How do I tell what version my current xf86 is? 
(2) And how do I upgrade it, if it's too old-fashioned? I don't do a lot 
of 'out of the box' upgrades, past the occasional 'rpm -iv'.

> Configuring external outputs and their properties (such as resolution)
> is now handled by xrandr 1.2. As this protocol revision was the
> brainchild of an Intel employee, naturally the intel graphics driver
> was the first to support it. It's very easy to use, no X restart
> required, and there's even a handy GUI called grandr these days. I
> don't know about Fedora Core 6, but Fedora 7 should almost certainly
> support XRandR 1.2.

Same questions.... where do I find xrandr, what version I have, how to 
upgrade it? I see

   >rpm -qa | grep -i xrandr
   libXrandr-1.1.1-3.1

Izzat it?

In separate news, I thought XF86 was... outdated and being replaced? Or 
do I have that in reverse - XF86 replaces something else?

Whil Hentzen
Milwaukee WI