fc7 problem with xorg configuration

Joe Smith jes at martnet.com
Wed Jun 6 17:47:20 UTC 2007


I only ran into one small glitch with fc7 install: the xorg 
configuration failed to detect my monitor, falling back to the generic 
VGA display. This meant the top display resolution was 1024x768.

Trying to run system-config-display was not helping either: even if I 
picked my monitor from the list, the xorg.conf was not being written to 
/etc/X11 (or anywhere else that I could find). Only if I deleted the 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf could I get a file there, and it seemed to be 
incomplete: it had no "Screen" section at the end listing the available 
resolutions.

Finally I ran it under ~root as:
# system-config-display -o xorg.conf --reconfig

and got a file I could use.

I depend on the Ctrl+Alt+{plus,minus} function to switch resolutions, 
but the default xorg.conf output has always produced a half-dozen or 
more modes, which is too many to be of any practical use but I can 
easily reduce this to the three or four I need. When the xorg.conf has 
no Screen section, it's of no use to me.

So my questions are:
1) Shouldn't Anaconda/system-config-display detect my monitor?
2) Is the Screen section being deprecated?
3) If so, then is there an easier way to get my required configuration?

I mean, it would sweet if running system-config-display was all I needed 
to do.

<Joe




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