Can not change screen resolution (Fedora 5, gnome)

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sat Jul 29 01:58:09 UTC 2006


Haluk Tunali writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> It seems like I am not able to change my x server screen resolution from
> the default to anything higher than that (I want 1280x1024 with (16 or
> 24 bit color depth). I have just freshly installed fedora 5 and running
> gnome window manager. I have tried changing the resolution with
> System->Administration->Display (the resolution and color depth options
> that I want, are listed in the drop-down box), it prompts me to
> logoff-logon, I exit the x server and start x again and see the same
> resolution (same with restart). I also tried editing xorg.conf file
> myself with no luck. 

Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues.


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