Widescreen resolutions and ATI drivers
Charles Malespin
ubuntu.physicist at gmail.com
Sat Mar 4 15:13:58 UTC 2006
Hi all, I just got a Dell 2005 Widescreen monitor. I want to use the
1680x1050 resolution that the monitor is capable of, but I cant figure
out what to do to my xorg.conf file so this will work. I have looked
around on the forums, and some people said to install the ATI fglrx
drivers. Well, seems that there are two how-tos on installing them,
which one do I use? Do I need to install these drivers? I have an ATI
X300 card which on the dell site says should be able to run the monitor.
I tried to mess with the xorg.conf file and then messed things up so
that X wouldnt start. I fixed it, but I got fairly lucky so I would
rather not have that happen again.. Can anyone walk me through what I
should add to my xorg, and if I need the ATI drivers? My xorg.conf
still has my old Dell 17" as the default monitor, so obviously I need to
change that, but I dont know to what..
Thanks in advance,
Charles
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