[ltp] Fedora 6 on T60p 1600x1200 resolution?

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:23:36 +0100


Matt Graham wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2007 07:01, after a long battle with technology, Ed 
> Collins wrote:
>> I've just loaded Fedora 6 on my Thinkpad T60p with the 15"
>> widescreen. The specs for the machine claim it supports resolution up 
>> to 1600x1200 but I can't get that to work.


I have it working here. It works with either Vesa or fglrx, but the 
fglrx driver crashes too often. Check Vert/Horiz sync if you still have 
problems.


Section "Device"
	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. ATI Default Card"
	Driver		"vesa"		#Works, but slow
#	Driver		"radeon"	#No go.
#	Driver		"ati"		#No go.
#	Driver		"r300"		#No go.
#	Driver 		"fglrx"		#ATI proprietary
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
#       Option "BIOSHotkeys" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
	DisplaySize 304 228     # <-- Added by rjn to sort out
				#tiny fonts - these are width, height
				#in mm.
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"ATI Technologies, Inc. ATI Default Card"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection