On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 09:04 +0100, Thomas Butterstein wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Fedora Core yesterday and I changed the system settings to > represent my system configuration (monitor, graphics card). The driver for > my ELSA Gloria Synergy however does not allow me to set any resolution > higher than 800*600, although in Red Hat Linux 9 I was able to work with a > reaolution of 1600*1200 at 64k colours with 85Hz. The generic 3Dlabs > Permedia driver shows the same behaviour. In RedHat 9, I was able to select > the amount of display RAM on the graphics adapter. This is not possible with > the one included in FC3. My idea is that maybe the settings for my monitor > are not correct. I selected my monitor from the list, but FC3 does not show > any details (vertical and horizontal frequency range) about the monitor as > RH9 did. Any ideas how to solve this? Is there a generic monitor device > which can be set up with the correct frequency values suiting my monitor's > capabilities? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! > > Regards > I see this all the time when the monitor is not properly detected and configured. Since my monitor is older and is not auto configured, I simply set it as a generic CRT with the appropriate resolution and then all the appropriate resolutions are available. > Thomas > >
