Still Can't Set Proper Screen Resolution

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 10:53 -0400, David M Burgess wrote:
> Anaconda properly detected my GeForce video card and NEC LCD 200VX
> monitor, xorg.conf has the proper entries to go to 1600x1200 using the
> NV driver but the screen resolution applet won't allow anything
> greater
> than 1280x960.
> 
> This is even after applying all updates as of 1500 UTC 2006-06-24.
> 
> It's not an "up stream" problem as other distributions don't seem to
> suffer from it - it seems to be Fedora specific. 

In your xorg.conf, comment out hoiz and vert settings for monitor, and
resolution options for device:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "LCD Panel 1400x1050"
        DisplaySize  370        300
#       HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
#       VertRefresh  59.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
#               Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"

#               Modes     "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
#               Modes    "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x1024"
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection


See the lines I commented out?  if you do the same,  X will detect your
monitor and your card and find the best resolution as provided by the
hardware.

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