On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> BeartoothThpd30 wrote:
>> Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
[....]
>> Somewhere among all the above, I got disgusted with the
>> display, which turned out to be 800x600 -- despite being connected
>> directly (no KVM switch!) to the 1680x1050 monitor. The app I tried to
>> correct with turned out (later, on another machine) *not* to be
>> system-config-display, but something called "gnome-display-properties";
>> so I edited 1680x1050 into xorg.conf.
>>
> Right about this point I cringe, I have had bad luck editing xorg.conf
> in recent Fedora.
I hear you loud & clear; I've spent a lot of miserable time in
that durance vile, on and off this list. Otoh, thanks to this discussion,
I'm back on the machine now.
> In general Fedora will like you better if you don't
> have xorg.conf, which may have been related to part of the problem.
That's news. I knew that it no longer existed by default ...
> At
> the recommendation of a number of people I use system-config-hardware to
> be sure the display type is set right,
How do you get that? Neither yum nor PackageKit (nor yet "yum
whatprovides") seem to know aught of it.
> the the Preferences->Display to
> set the resolution. Failing in this use system-config-display --xorg to
> create a new file, then edit that. Only needed to do that on one
> machine.
I got an error message denying the existence of " --xorg"
> I make no claim to be an expert, I just have learned not to shoot myself
> in the foot.
Between your post and Tom Horsley's, I happened to think of
changing the driver -- and did, from nv to vesa. I don't now recall
exactly what all else I did, but I do remember an oddity.
At one point, I tried again to edit xorg.conf, and got a message
saying it didn't exist. I ran system-config-display instead to create one
-- and it did, with vesa instead of nv.
After all that, I can still only set the display up to 1280x1024,
not 1680x1050 (which this machine, I'm sure, did support before). But
that's within the monitor's own ability to adapt to.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
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