X11 On Hi-Resolution TFT Displays?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday February 8, 2001 @07:12PM from the getting-things-working dept.

jesyntax asks: "Does anyone know how to get my 1280x1024 TFT working in Linux? When loading RedHat Linux 7.0 on my Gateway Solo 9300 laptop, I cannot seem to get it to go to graphics mode. The Linux installer does not detect the video hardware and when setting the 'settings' manually, the choices do not make sense for a laptop (TFT or LCD). I could not find a usable choice in the settings anywhere, but some TFT and LCD screens were listed in the options. These flat screens do not have a scan frequency per-se because they do not have to draw the lines on the screen as with a CRT monitor. Instead they have a fixed number of transistors which makes them not have lines but dots. There was no way in the manual settings to specify this."

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Try XFree86 4.02 by jfunk · 2001-02-09 02:41 · Score: 3

I'm now using Xfree86 4.02 on my laptop.

I used Xfree86 -configure to grab all those values and create a working XF86Config. It will grab your monitor's specs from the video card (yep, it worked on my TFT and my 19 inch CRT at home). If you're using SuSE, SaX2 is a frontend to this, and is quite cool, giving you a lot of control.

I'd suggest giving it a try, you'll probably get working modelines.