On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:15 +0100, John Whitley wrote: > Having fresh installed Fedora 9, I am struggling with changing both the > Monitor type and the screen resolution. > > System->Administration->Display->Hardware allowed ne to change the > Monitor type to Generic LCD 1280x1024 > > Further attempts do not update /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > Setting the monitor to 1280x1024 gave me a screen resolution of 1024x768 > > Attempting to change this by either > System->Preferences->Hardware->Screen Resolution or > System->Administration->Display->Settings, I was only offered either the > same or lower resolutions. > > Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a higher resolution solved the problem. > > In each case I was careful to make the change and then re-login. > > Looking at Redhat Bugzilla, it appears there have been problems with > sys-config-display since Fedora 7 although I did not suffer with this on > numerous Fedora 8 boxes I setup. > > Is this a common problem? How do others change screen resolution? > > I would be grateful for advice Try xrandr. Also, in many cases you can simply remove (or rename) xorg.conf and the driver will work it out for itself. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
