Leslie Katz wrote: > I just bought a new monitor. It works with a live CD (Knoppix). > According to Knoppix, the resolution is 1152x864, with a refresh rate > of 75 Hz. It works in Windows. Given what Knoppix told me, I set the > resolution in Windows to 1152x864. > > However, I can't get it to work with my regular distribution, Fedora. > > When I boot up, I see part of the record of bootup events. Then the > screen cuts out, with the message "Out of range", and doesn't re-appear. > > I don't know how to change resolution from the command line in Fedora, > nor do I know how to get to the command line, rather than having the > bootup continue to the point at which I lose the screen. > > I'd appreciate any guidance. I love configuring X :-) Easiest way to go is probably boot knoppix. Save the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file somewhere you can get it later (eg your home dir on the mounted fedora hard disk partition)
boot fedora: have a look at how the saved koppix file differs from the /etc/X11/xorg.conf in fedora. Or if you don't care become root (or use sudo) to rename the fedora file to xorg.conf.fedora-default move the knoppix one into its place. Reboot. HTH & good luck. Hal P.S. If you'd rather have gui, you can probably do all of that from knoppix, then just reboot into fedora $sudo su in knoppix gives you root access -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
