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Category Archives: X11
More trouble with Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP
When I posted Dual Head on Fedora 11 last night, I thought I had the problem completely solved, but when I booted the system this morning, the video card was acting up again. There were lots of black horizontal streaks … Continue reading
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Dual-head on Fedora 11
I finally have a working dual-head configuration on Fedora 11 with a Radeon 2600 Pro AGP card and two LCD monitors. The ATI Catalyst (fglrx) binary-only driver is crashing again; I think they’ve had a regression in their AGP support … Continue reading
Suboptimal fonts after Fedora 9 upgrade
Update: I upgraded one of my machines from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9, and it started using tiny fonts. Tom Horsley on the Fedora list explained that now the X server is actually using the display resolution (dots per inch) … Continue reading
Posted in Fedora, The Suboptimal Way, X11
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FreeNX
I just tried using FreeNX instead of X port forwarding with SSH. The problem with X port forwarding is that if your SSH connection dies for any reason, you lose your X session. You can use the ‘screen’ program inside … Continue reading
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lcdtest 1.00 has new options and commands
On a mailing list, someone pointed out a Windows lcd test program that was useful for adjusting the pixel clock frequency and phase of LCD monitors with analog VGA inputs (vs. DVI). It puts up alternating white and black vertical … Continue reading
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Video card woes, continued
I installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 in a spare partition to see if the supplied X server would solve the Radeon 9200 16-bit/24-bit problem. No dice. Ended up installing a Radeon 9550SE card instead, which works OK.
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Video card woes, DVI cables
The refurb Sapphire Radeon 9200 card arrived yesterday. The card seems to work fine, as far as I can tell. Software is a different matter.
lcdtest – a new LCD test pattern utility
As mentioned in my last entry, I just replaced my aging Nokia 445Xi 21″ CRT monitor with a new Samsung SyncMaster 213T 21″ LCD monitor. Much easier on my aging eyes that can no longer focus close in, as the … Continue reading
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New LCD monitor
I just got a new Samsung SyncMaster 213T LCD monitor, on sale locally for $739 with a $100 mail-in rebate (better deals can be found on line, but I like instant gratification). 21″, 1600×1200. Same diagonal and resolution as the … Continue reading
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S3 should open-source the Linux drivers for their video cards
S3 has just released their Chrome S27 graphics chip, and cards are starting to become available. This brings them back into a competitive position with ATI and NVidia. ATI and NVidia will not open-source their drivers for X.org, the open-source … Continue reading →