On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:36:39 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > and i'd be delighted if someone could suggest what to add in terms > of Screen or Modes to get 1280x800, because i've tried several > variations and nothing worked. suggestions welcome. i'm sure it's > trivial and just one of those combinations i've missed. Maybe trivial, maybe not. The vesa driver might be restricted to only modes the video card BIOS can set (not sure how it works). There is a program named "cvt" shipped with X these days that will generate a mode line, but it is very hit or miss getting any of the drivers to accept a manual mode line these days, see: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html for some of my adventures with mode lines (which says how you can at least try to install one in the xorg.conf file). If this is a laptop, there may be some weird utilities out there to hack the BIOS settings to install modes that don't exist (I'm sure I remember seeing one for intel based video, maybe not ati though). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
