Video upgrade advice

Eric "Shubes" plug at shubes.net
Thu Aug 3 11:22:37 MST 2006


Yeah, I had planned on doing that for the monitor.
My concern is with the video card. My onboard video doesn't handle wide 
resolutions.

Kenneth wrote:
> If you already have the monitor settings, can't you just put them in
> xorg.conf? I find myself editing that by hand all the time, as the setup
> utilities never do what I want.  And I have a monitor that does not sync
> properly at certain resolutions and frequencies, so I have to mess with the
> config file to make sure the system plays nice.
> 
> 
> --- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at shubes.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have a triple-boot desktop (FC5, CentOS4.3, Ubuntu6.06) that I'm going 
>> to put a GeForce6200 card into for running a Viewsonic VA2012wb. I 
>> primarily use FC5.
>>
>> I have the xconfig settings for the monitor (thanks, Carl!).
>>
>> My problem is that kudzu on FC5 segfaults on my machine 
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186538)
>>
>> Any ideas how I'm going to get the 6200 card installed/configured on FC5 
>> w/out kudzu?
>>
>> Note, I haven't tried anything yet. The kudzu bug has me worried.
>> -- 
>> -Eric 'shubes'


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'


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