Re: Rescuing a veteran : F14, PowerEdge SC1420, HP w2207h

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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
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