[PLUG] It's Here!!

[Aaron Burt]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:32:29PM -0700, Jason R. Martin wrote:
> >And there is (as I feared) a problem with the video. It should be 
> >running at 1280 x 800. Instead it is 1024 x 768, vesa. 
>
> I am not familiar with ATI cards, since I'm an Nvidia guy, but my laptop 
> has an 1280x800 display, and it is not supported by the standard X 
> configuration tools (I run FC3).  The only distro I've used that 
> detected and configured it right the first time was Ubuntu.  I would 
> suggest Googling for something like "Radeon 1280x800 xorg.conf" and look 
> for people who have set it up.  It will probably involve hand editing 
> your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, though perhaps Yast is better at adding 
> custom stuff than Fedora's tools.

I think you'll be looking for the fglrx (FireGL RX) driver for X.
Ubuntu has it in the Multiverse archive as xorg-server-fglrx.  Maybe
SuSE has it under similar name.

Good luck,
  Aaron