Bob Goodwin: > I've just changed a monitor and need to set the resolution to 1680 x > 1050 @60Hz [ViewSonic VX2035WM]. > > XFCE display settings offers nothing higher than 1024 x 758 @60Hz > which it seems to default to. > > The Gigabyte motherboard shows a max. of 1920 x 1200. When I installed Fedora 17, I couldn't get it to run the display at the resolution I wanted. I located a ~/.config/monitors.xml file that Gnome (at least) paid attention to, and wrote my resolution into its width and height parameters. That worked. Then I copied the file into /etc/skel/.config/monitors.xml, so that all new user accounts get that resolution, by default, automatically. Automatic detection works by getting the list of resolutions from the monitor (width, height, and scan frequencies), doing the same for the graphics card, and choosing the highest resolution out of the ones that are common between the two lists. The list of supported resolutions that it uses, or lets you pick from, only includes the ones those common ones. For instance, if your monitor only supported 1280 by 1084 at 60 Hz, and your graphics card only supported 1280 by 1084 at 80 Hz, then you wouldn't be able to use 1280 by 1084, at all. And that's simplifying it, I've only mentioned the vertical scan rates, the horizontal scan rates have to match, as well. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 8 21:40:51 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
