Lief Hendrickson wrote: >.. > I think it is Fedora 3. How can I tell the version number (other than > display of the kernel number at the dual boot screen)? When it is > loaded, the screen says "Fedora Core" without a version number. Is > there a way to get it to tell you the version number that is running?
from a terminal cat /etc/issue or cat /etc/redhat-release Or from a gui filebrowser, open either of those files (if asked, chooose to open in a text editor). > > The monitor is a SyncMaster 2253LW flat screen. OK, so it's an LCD with native resolution of 1680x1050. The older versions of Fedora (aka Fedora Core, in those days) might not do as good a job of identifying the hardware as the newer versions do today. As you say in another message, the monitor should be able to display lower resolutions such as 1024x768. I haven't played too much with running wide-screen (16:10) displays at a 4:3 resolution, but I would think things would always end up distorted. If 1680x1050 is undesirable because fonts end up too small, there may be a couple of options 1. choose large-fonts -- except that I can't remember how to do that, and can't seem to find it right now. Maybe I'm remembering something from <shush> Windows? Maybe someone else will help out here. 2. choose a lower but still wide-screen-format resolution such as 1440x900, 1280x800, or 1360x768 But before getting to there, you may need to tell the system that the monitor is a wide-screen LCD capable of 1680x1050. You do that in System > Administration > Display > Hardware > Monitor Type If your FC3(?) menu doesn't navigate to there, you can probably just run the command system-config-display It will ask for the root password, if run as non-root. Xwindows may require a restart after such a change. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
