On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf@omen.com wrote:
I have been using a 1993 Viewsonic 21 monitor for the console on the omen.com server. The old jug isn't as sharp as it once was, but it still can do 1024x768 or better.
There are a couple of items that could cause this:
1) the nvidia driver has dropped support for the video card you have. however the xvesa card should work at 1024x768 2) more likely the monitor does not have a DMI probing and so the video driver goes into safe mode of 800x600.
There are a couple of ways to try and fix this. 1) Make a custom xorg.conf file with the display set up for it. 2) Use xrandr to do it on the fly
xrandr --newmode "1024x768" .... fill in data for your monitor here .... +hsync +vsync xrandr --addmode VGA1 "1024x768" xrandr --output VGA1 --mode "1024x768"x0.0
or something like that.
Upon installing Fedora 12, I discovered that there in no longer a reasonable way to set anything higher than 800x600 with Xvesa or the default driver for Nvidia. This is a major breakage as many applets are unusable at 800x600, including system management. Some of the menu is off the screen and there is no apparent way to get them to appear on screen.
If utilities are unusable in 800x600 the ability to manually set larger screen size that was present before Fedora 12 needs to be fixed.
-- Chuck Forsberg caf@omen.com www.omen.com 503-614-0430 Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software" 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665
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