Bugzilla – Bug 152466
Philips Brilliance 200W widescreen monitor not configurable
Last modified: 2006-05-02 07:21:44 UTC
I try to configure a Philips Brilliance 200W monitor to work with my laptop (analogue output). The model is not listed in sax2. I selected "Activate Dual Head Mode" and then chose a resolution of 1680x1050 in WSXGA+ (that's what the manual sais is best). But when starting X the resolution falls back to 1280x1024@60Hz. The product description of the monitor lists: Vertical refresh rate 56Hz-85Hz Horizontal Frequency 30kHz-93kHz (Analog input) I tried to set these values manually but it had no effect. Pleae tell me what information you need...
44 models have been ordered by SuSE you are the 14th person having problems with it. Fix is already available in stable
But does not work for me. I installed all sax packages from stable and selected model "Philips 200W" and then a resolution of 1680x1050. Same result. I get a resolution of 1280x1024. Maybe it has something todo with the multihead environment?
1) if you have installed the packages from stable and call sax2 -r (because your hardware has changed) there mustn't be any need to select a monitor because it gets autodetected 2) if you are using a Intel graphics chip the 1680x1050 are not part of the VESA BIOS. SaX will write that information into the BIOS after the configuration. If you call it the first time without patched bios the server will start in 1280x1024 but the GUI will suggest 1680x1050 I tested exactly that on my system and it works. If you change your hardware and don't call sax with -r the old cache is used... RTFM
Monitor gets autodetected, but I still don't get the full resolution. Sorry, but I still can't get the monitor to work together with my notebook with RC3, reopening...
I'm pretty sure your laptop has an Intel chip ?
problem was that the native panel resolution is 1400x1050 and the radeon driver doesn't allow to use this resolution with a higher external one. The binary fglrx driver can do this Regards Marcus