Dell 2005fpw and Linux, anyone using this combo?

[Steelgrave]

Anybody using this combo? If so at what resolution and what drivers/vid card/distro etc..

I played with Suse 9.2 and FC3 over the weekend and never got either one to do 1680x1050 or even fit on the screen correctly at all.

 

[wazoo42]

I haven't tried this xorg config file yet, but I found it from some guy that said it worked for his.

#configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with
xset(1))
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

#Specify the mouse device
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

# Customized display mode
Section "Modes"
# 1680x1050 @ 60 Hz
# Horizontal pixels
# Front porch: 104 Back porch: 280 Sync width: 176
# Sync polarity: - Scan rate: 65.29kHz Active pixels: 1680
# Vertical lines:
# Front porch: 3 Back porch: 30 Sync width: 6
# Sync polarity + Refresh rate 59.954Hz Active pixels: 1050
# Pixel clock: 146.25MHz
Identifier "16:10"
ModeLine "1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1960 2136 2240 1050 1080 1086 1089
-hsync +vsync
EndSection

# Configure your monitor
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "DELL 2005FPW"
UseModes "16:10"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

# Configure your graphic card
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

 

[Steelgrave]

Thaks for the reply. I had tried that under FC3, and got 1680x1050, but it was off of the screen. No matter what I modified in the settings on the LCD, couldn't get it to display on there properly. (would lose about 1/2 inch either on top or bottom)