D630 has an NVIDIA(R) Quadro NVS 135M1 and Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X3100. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I select menu item System/Administration/Display and authenticate. I > select a resolution from the resolution menu. I click 'OK'. > A dialog box pops up: > > "Display settings changed > You need to log out and restart the X server for the changes to take effect. > Coinfiguration was written to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, original > configuration saved as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup" > > I click okay, open up a terminal window. ls -la shows > /etc/X11/xorg.conf was modified. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup does not > exist. But the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf have not changed. The file is owned and writeable by root. Nothing shows up in /var/log/messages, except authorization stuff, which succeeds. Then I tried changing the hardware tab/monitor type. Sadly, no pre-setting for my Dell screen, so I choose generic LCD panel 1280x800, since that is what my screen is. Again, system-config-display acts like it is saving it and backing up old settings, but nothing changes and no backup written. I ended up editing the file by hand. Here's the file I have now: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # keyboard added by rhpxl Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x800" HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" " 832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x400" "640x350" EndSubSection EndSection system-config-display doesn't show the 1280x800 option. It does let me switch between those modes, though of course I can't choose 1280x800, since it is missing from the menu. I'm confused. Why won't system-config-display let me save my settings? Why does it override the contents of the config file? Do I need to put some sort of usemodes or mode entry in the monitor section? Thanks for any clues. Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list