keep xorg from auto-detecting

Tod Merley todbot88 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 05:40:03 UTC 2007


On Dec 15, 2007 9:09 PM,  Brain Centipedes <brain.centipedes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to keep Xorg from auto-detecting video resolution in
> Fedora 8?
> On Fedora 7 I just put the correct video settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and
> everything was fine.  But in Fedora 8 it tries to detect my resolution and
> gets things wrong.  So I edited xorg.conf, but X is ignoring the settings in
> the conf file and still trying to detect things itself.  Any ideas?
>
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Hi Brain Centipedes!

This is just my first thought - check the permissions of the xorg.conf
you edited (the result) - also check the contents of
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.  Look for (WW) and (EE) lines in particular.
Re-establish your edited xorg.conf - try again - then look.

Good Hunting!

Tod




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