Display Resolution problem - Fedora 14

[David]

On 12/13/2010 6:31 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 03:03 PM, David wrote:
>> Now that system-config-display is abandoned and xorg.conf is no longer
>> used what can I use to configure an older CRT monitor that Xorg in
>> Fedora does not recognize? Xorg in Fedora does not recognize the fact
>> that this monitor is capable of a 1600x1200 display resolution. So that
>> is not an offered setting.
>>
>> Three other different Linux distributions do not recognize this monitor
>> either, a fault of the monitor, but do recognize that it is capable of a
>> 1600x1200 display resolution for a generic monitor.
>>
>> So where do I put this information so that Fedora is also capable of a
>> 1600x1200 display resolution? In what file? At what location? How would
>> the data read?
>>
>> Xrandr does not seem to be able to recognize the monitor either as it
>> offers the same lower resolutions.
> 
> I'm *kind of* in the same boat as you -- native mode of my LCD isn't 
> caught by default (due to a bad EDID).
> I use this to force the mode:
> 
> xrandr --newmode 1600x1200m <timing info>
> xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1600x1200m
> 
> That should make the mode available for normal xrandr operation.


Thank you.
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  David