On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > BeartoothThpd30 wrote: >> Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general [....] >> Somewhere among all the above, I got disgusted with the >> display, which turned out to be 800x600 -- despite being connected >> directly (no KVM switch!) to the 1680x1050 monitor. The app I tried to >> correct with turned out (later, on another machine) *not* to be >> system-config-display, but something called "gnome-display-properties"; >> so I edited 1680x1050 into xorg.conf. >> > Right about this point I cringe, I have had bad luck editing xorg.conf > in recent Fedora. I hear you loud & clear; I've spent a lot of miserable time in that durance vile, on and off this list. Otoh, thanks to this discussion, I'm back on the machine now. > In general Fedora will like you better if you don't > have xorg.conf, which may have been related to part of the problem. That's news. I knew that it no longer existed by default ... > At > the recommendation of a number of people I use system-config-hardware to > be sure the display type is set right, How do you get that? Neither yum nor PackageKit (nor yet "yum whatprovides") seem to know aught of it. > the the Preferences->Display to > set the resolution. Failing in this use system-config-display --xorg to > create a new file, then edit that. Only needed to do that on one > machine. I got an error message denying the existence of " --xorg" > I make no claim to be an expert, I just have learned not to shoot myself > in the foot. Between your post and Tom Horsley's, I happened to think of changing the driver -- and did, from nv to vesa. I don't now recall exactly what all else I did, but I do remember an oddity. At one point, I tried again to edit xorg.conf, and got a message saying it didn't exist. I ran system-config-display instead to create one -- and it did, with vesa instead of nv. After all that, I can still only set the display up to 1280x1024, not 1680x1050 (which this machine, I'm sure, did support before). But that's within the monitor's own ability to adapt to. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
