screen resolution

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 11:04 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: 
> On 02/09/2012 09:46 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > On 02/09/2012 05:10 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >> I have a screen 1920x1080 which the size is not detected (the maximum
> >> size detected is 1024x768 (graphic card: GeForce 210).
> >> fedora16.
> >>
> >> How can I switch to such a 1920x1080 resolution?
> >
> > That's very odd.  I'm using the nouveau driver, and 2560x1600 works
> > for me.  /var/log/Xorg.0.log should provide some clues.
> 
> If the monitor doesn't return its capabilities via EDID reliably, the
> system will default to 1024x768.  Try "xrandr" and see what you get.
> Here's a sample from my system:
> 
> [root at prophead tmp]# xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
> DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y 
> axis) 598mm x 336mm
>     1920x1080      60.0*+   60.0
>     1600x1200      60.0
>     1680x1050      60.0
>     1280x1024      75.0     60.0
>     1440x900       59.9
>     1280x960       60.0
>     1152x864       75.0
>     1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0
>     832x624        74.6
>     800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2
>     640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0
>     720x400        70.1
> DVI-I-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 
> If you don't see your 1920x1080 in there, then you can forcing it by
> trying "xrandr --mode 1920x1080" to see if that'll bite.  If it does,
> then you can add appropriate lines to your xorg.conf file.
tried what yoou suggest. Although man xrandr says there iws a --mode
option when I run xrandr --mode I get a response that the option does
not exist. Why is that?

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