F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

[Burkhard Plache]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Burkhard Plache
<burkhardplache at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400,
>>  Burkhard Plache <burkhardplache at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello Fellow Users,
>>>
>>> after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600,
>>> whereas my BenQ FP 757 has 1280 x 1024. There must be some
>>> interface (or driver?) problem, since Preferences->Monitor does not
>>> allow me to change to the desired resolution. I did not find any hints
>>> on how to proceed in the docs.fedoraproject.org F14 installation guide.
>>
>> Does that monitor do proper EDID? If not you'll need to use an xorg.conf
>> file to add mode lines for it.
>
> Appreciate the response.
>
> I do not know how to find out if the monitor does proper EDID.
> Can I query manually?
>
> After reading up on this type of problem, there seem to be difficulties getting
> xorg.conf utilized by X11. Currently, xorf.conf does not exist on my system.
> Burkhard
>

As a side remark, the installation was an update over a previous F7
installation,
where the monitor was recognized without a hitch. So, some improvement was
beneficial for some, but not me.

Some additional attempts / info:

(1) Installed OpenSUSE 11.3.
Same unknown monitor problem.

(2) Reinstalled F14 using the 'basic video driver'
Still unknown monitor, albeit at different resolution.

(3) Learned about xrandr (X Resize and Rotate Extension) command line program,
to which Preferences->Monitor GUI seems to be a front end.
Unfortunately, xrandr does not allow me to change the display size
(e.g. via xrandr -s 1280X1024).

(4) Some applicable web references
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=241705

Concluding so far: The video driver does not recognize the monitor.
Question: Can I use a different driver, or force some driver to use my
preferred size?

Would be great to have again decent resolution in front of me.

Thanks for reading & appreciate any suggestion,
Burkhard