F-10 set specific Xorg resolution

C Lance Moxley clmoxley at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 01:00:52 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:

> You could try seeing if any of the nonsense in my web page helps:
>
> http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html

It definitely got me going in the right direction. Thank you.

> The trouble is, it seems more and more like the latest versions
> of X have gotten so snooty and known-it-all that they absolutely
> refuse to use any kind of user supplied mode line, so it may be
> impossible.

That was my experience until I read through your doc. I didn't know
about the "cvt" program. Using that generated a modeline that, when
inserted properly in /etc/X11/xorg.conf actually worked!

I'm now happily working at 1280x768_75. Thanks again!

-- 
C Lance Moxley
http://moxley.us/




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