fglrx 7.12 resolution problem

[John Lagrue]

On 24/12/2007, William Murray <W.J.Murray at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 01:49 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> > To OP (Bill)
> >
> > Try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >
> > see the section that looks like this...
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> >         Identifier "Screen0"
> >         Device     "Videocard0"
> >         Monitor    "Monitor0"
> >         DefaultDepth     24
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     24
> >                 Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720"
> > "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >         EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> > (Note that the 'Modes' section is all on one line but will wrap into
> > multiple lines in this e-mail.)
> >
> > Add "1400x1050" into that line (make it the first resolution because
> > the
> > first listed is the first tried).
> >
> > Then see what happens when you log out and log back in...I don't think
> > it will take a restart to change it.
> >
> > Craig
>   As has been pointed out, modes doesn't work. Actually if you specify
> just 1400x1050 you get a black screen - so it dos something!
>    I have oped to 1280 for just now, but it causes problems .
>  Bill
>

Glad to see it's not just me! But it's a bt of a PITA!

Merry Christmas, one and all )

John