On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As reported here, I've been having lots of grief with an old Dell > machine, running Fedora 14, which can't figure out the size of my > monitor. It has been unable to show any graphic display (or even finish > booting) for months now. (I have been able to ssh into it.) > > Today I put the F14 live CD into it, and rebooted without even > taking it out from behind the KVM switch. It found the proper numbers for > the monitor (1680x1050 at 60 Hz) at once, by itself; the display looks > fine. > > How do I now get these numbers into the hard drive, where my > install of regular F14 will find and use them?? The liveCD probably just let X auto detect everything. I would try renaming your xorg.conf to something like xorg.conf_backup and see if it works. Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
