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Hi Victor,

Victor Marquez wrote:

Hi all,
I am trying to add resolution options to the graphical environment but can not find the appropriate configuration file in use.

I added my resolution option to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and to /etc/XF86Config and did tellinit 3 and tellinit 5 each time. After that I do not see the new option added to the list when I access System Settings... Display... Settings.
This is how I added the option:
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
I am using FC3 as VMware guest OS under Windows XP.
I have a laptop with monitor at 1280x800.
I have read man xorg.conf and tried to determine the appropriate file by looking at the paths this man page says xorg searches and still can not find the appropriate file.

I can not find the -config option because I do not know where xorg is started. Looked at /etc/inittab and it runs /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon but I believe it is not started there. Or it is?

My environment seems not to have a $XORGCONFIG variable set (echo $XORGCONFIG returns a blank line).

Can somebody help me please?


/var/log/Xorg.0.log

and there is a line like this...

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"


Thanks a lot in advance.

Victor Marquez

Hth

Alex