problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

[Robert Moskowitz]

Putting my problem into this thread...

On 12/27/2009 02:06 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:42:19 -0800
> Paul Allen Newell<pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>  wrote:
>
>    
>> To all:
>>
>> Installed f12 without any problems.
>>
>> Discovered that crtl-alt-backspace was disabled in f12 and how I
>> could edit my xorg.conf to restore that feature.
>>      
> How did you discover this? Trying it in a gnome desktop? :)
>
>    
>> Searched Fedora f12 web pages and they told me to install
>> system-config-display to create an xorg.conf that matched the default
>> that the opSys was using. Worked great and, to use the cliché,
>> "groovy"
>>      
> Don't do that. See:
>
> http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/
>
> (with screenshots even! :)
>
> There is no need at all to make an xorg.conf, and as you have seen it
> can cause problems moving forward.
>    

And I cannot get my notebook to even go over 800x600 for the internal 
display without using system-config-display to create a xorg.conf to get 
higher resolution with FC12.  How do I convince X to give me more 
without the xorg.conf?

BTW, this is on an HP nc2400 that has a 12" display, but I have always 
run it at 1024x768.