Some issues in F11

Chris Rouch chris.rouch at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 09:48:27 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Bradley<pursley001 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 06/25/2009 07:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:09:55 -0500
>> Bradley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - Upon installation, the system was unable to determine what type of
>>> monitor was available and doesn't give me the option to manually select
>>> the monitor's type or capabilities.
>>>
>>
>> You can do a "yum install system-config-display" and get back
>> the X config app they removed from the standard distro because
>> X is now perfect and never makes any mistakes :-).
>>
>>
>
> Thanks, that took care of half of the problem.  Now, the other half is that
> F8 supported a 1360x768 (widescreen) display mode and F11 doesn't - it keeps
> defaulting to 1024x768 and will not go to the widescreen mode even when it
> is listed as the only option in xorg.conf (it drops to an unsupported
> display mode for some reason).  Any suggestions?
>
> Bradley
>

You could try to add to xorg.conf:

Option "NoDDC"

This tells the X server to not probe the monitor for its capabilities,
but to do what it's told. You shouldn't really need it unless you're
using a kvm though.




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