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Is there any Linux system which supports wide screen laptop?

Is there any Linux system which supports wide screen laptop?

Mine is a acer aspire 1690 WLMI with ATI radeon x700 with 64 VRAM, i been trying with suse 10, redhat etc and none is working, so i am wondering is there any latest version of linux system can help me?

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xDamox

Hi,

Have you tried Fedora Core?

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pjedmond

More recent Linux distributions use Xorg, instead of XFree86. Any Xorg (including RHEL 4 onwards, Fedora Core 4 onwards) distribution will support the wide screen provided the chipsets are supported.

1. Confirm your chipset using lspci.

2. Upgrade Xorg to 6.8.3.

3. Interestingly enough, someone else with the same laptop as you seems to think that it identified itself as an intel chipset:

http://www.graphics-muse.org/wp/?p=59

4. Work through this manual alteration of the xorg.conf file:

http://www.wiredfool.com/2005/06/15/widescreenLcdsAndUbuntuLinux

It's not exactly user friendly but it works!

pjedmond

Another working Xorg entry for wide screens:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01737.html

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frey8010

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sorry i think i was wrong with the question itself, in fact it was the ATI driver which does not work

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