screen resolution
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 11 20:38:29 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 17:09 -0400, Dylan Semler wrote:
>
>
> On 9/10/06, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
> Most good graphics drivers will ignore the settings for
> resolution in
> xorg.conf, and query the monitor itself. Check
> your /var/log/Xorg.log.0
> file and search for 1920z1200. You will see that it set the
> default by
> itself.
>
> Well this wasn't the case at least as recently as fc3 or 4. I had
> been running in 4:3 mode for a while as none of the guis had generic
> lcd screens for widescreen resulotion. It wasn't until i finilaly
> figured out the xorg.conf stuff that I was able to use widescreen.
>
Well here is a YMMV moment. I have configured my resolution on my laptop
to be 1920x1200 both in FC4 and FC5 and never once looked at xorg.conf.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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