well i did what it said and fussed with it for an hour or so but it didnt work, any more ideas? On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 22:02, Jed wrote: > Ryan Betts wrote: > > >I'm using a laptop with a WXGA screen and I'm trying to add a custom > >resolution of 1280x800 and I cat get it X to recognize the custom > >resolution in XF86Config file. Isearched the mailing list but to no > >avail. Any ideas? > > > >Thanx > >Ryan > > > > > >-- > >fedora-list mailing list > >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > For these weird resolutions you need to generate a X modeline > specifically for your monitor, and then put this line into your > XF86Config file. I used this, > http://xtiming.soureforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl > > This is how I got X to run at 1280x720. > > -- > Jed > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list