Forcing a screen resolution
Alexander Apprich
A.Apprich at science-computing.de
Thu Dec 9 10:33:48 UTC 2004
Hi Chris,
Chris Morrison wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just installed Fedora Core 3 on my new AMD64 laptop, all has gone
> well.
>
> My laptop is a 17" widescreen model with ATI Radeon 9700 Graphics. The
> max screen resolution is 1440x900.
>
> Fedora has correctly identified and set up my graphics card, and I have
> configured the monitor type to 1440x900 TFT.
>
> However, when I go to set the screen resolution in System Settings->
> Display, 1440x900 is NOT displayed as one of the available resolutions.
> I am using GNOME as my desktop.
>
> Is there a configuration file I can tweak to make this an available
> resolution, or to make this the screen res.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
in the Line "Modes" put your 1440x900 in the first position. The restart
your X-Server. Worked for me all the time.
>
> Regards,
>
Alex
>
>
> Chris
>
>
> PS: On the subject of Laptops, does anyone know of a GNOME applet to
> display the battery level?
>
Click with the right mouse button on your taskbar, select "Add to panel"
and then select the "Battery charge monitor"
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