about displays/screens

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Antonio M wrote:
> I am confused...
> Yesterday I got a new LCD display as replacement of a Philps 107 E CRT
> display...
> When I restarted tha machine, I got the old resolution, so I tried to
> change it witg system-config-display, I entered a generic LCD
> (1360x768) display as my Acer was not on the list, I logged out and I
> logged in but in system-config-display I still get my olp Philips with
> a maximum resolution of 1280x1024!!!.
> This is my xorg.conf file
> 
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "single head configuration"
> 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
> # keyboard added by rhpxl
> 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> 	Driver      "kbd"
> 	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
> 	Option	    "XkbLayout" "it"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
> 	ModelName    "Philips 107E"
> 	HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
> 	VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
> 	Option	    "dpms"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier  "Videocard0"
> 	Driver      "nouveau"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier "Screen0"
> 	Device     "Videocard0"
> 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Right here, you are still telling X to use Monitor0, which is your old 
monitor.  I'm not sure what X is doing, you need to look at your 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log file to know for sure.

> 	DefaultDepth     24
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     24
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     16
> 		Modes    "800x600"
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> 
> any idea???
> System is an F11 fully upgraded that was rawhide, F10 and so on...


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