Low X11 resolution with samsung monitor

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 7/28/09, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:

> From: Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com>
> Subject: Low X11 resolution with samsung monitor
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 8:19 PM
> Hello all, 
> 
> I have just installed Fedora 11 on my new computer with
> Intel Q33 graphics and could use some help.
> 
> When I boot Fedora with my old Samsung 950p CRT 
> monitor plugged in, the X11 resolution is something 
> reasonably high (at least 1024x760 I think).  But when
> 
> I boot it with my new Samsung 2333SW LCD monitor, 
> X runs at 800x600 resolution with no higher resolutions
> available the Gnome "Display" applet..
> 
> Per some Google results I tried doing "Xorg -configure :1"
> 
> after booting with each monitor but the resulting
> xorg.conf.new
> file are identical.  However, when I use that file
> (which
> has a basically empty Monitor section), I now get 1024x
> 768.  But I still can't figure out how to get
> 1280x1024
> or best, 1920x1080.
> 
> Any idea how I create a xorg.conf file that will display
> at my lcd monitor's native 1920x1080 resolution or any-
> thing better than 1024x768?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 


In the Section "Monitor" of  your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, 

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Card0"
Monitor    "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     24
EndSubSection
EndSection


Change it to add a section 
Modes "1920x1080" 
like the following:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Card0"
Monitor    "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     1
Modes "1920x1080" 
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     4
Modes "1920x1080" 
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     8
Modes "1920x1080" 
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     15
Modes "1920x1080" 
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     16
Modes "1920x1080" 
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     24
Modes "1920x1080" 
EndSubSection
EndSection


Please try that out and report back with success or failure.  Then if it works, you may add more values like
Modes "1929x1080" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600", etc

Regards,

Antonio