Fedora 9 - changing screen resolution with sys-config-display (or not)

[John Whitley]

Having fresh installed Fedora 9, I am struggling with changing both the 
Monitor type and the screen resolution.

System->Administration->Display->Hardware allowed ne to change the 
Monitor type to Generic LCD 1280x1024

Further attempts do not update /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Setting the monitor to 1280x1024 gave me a screen resolution of 1024x768

Attempting to change this by either 
System->Preferences->Hardware->Screen Resolution or 
System->Administration->Display->Settings, I was only offered either the 
same or lower resolutions.

Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a higher resolution solved the problem.

In each case I was careful to make the change and then re-login.

Looking at Redhat Bugzilla, it appears there have been problems with 
sys-config-display since Fedora 7 although I did not suffer with this on 
numerous Fedora 8 boxes I setup.

Is this a common problem? How do others change screen resolution?

I would be grateful for advice

Regards

John Whitley

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:15 +0100, John Whitley wrote:
>  Having fresh installed Fedora 9, I am struggling with changing both
> the 
>  Monitor type and the screen resolution.
>  
>  System->Administration->Display->Hardware allowed ne to change the 
>  Monitor type to Generic LCD 1280x1024
>  
>  Further attempts do not update /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>  
>  Setting the monitor to 1280x1024 gave me a screen resolution of 1024x768
>  
>  Attempting to change this by either 
>  System->Preferences->Hardware->Screen Resolution or 
>  System->Administration->Display->Settings, I was only offered either the 
>  same or lower resolutions.
>  
>  Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a higher resolution solved the problem.
>  
>  In each case I was careful to make the change and then re-login.
>  
>  Looking at Redhat Bugzilla, it appears there have been problems with 
>  sys-config-display since Fedora 7 although I did not suffer with this on 
>  numerous Fedora 8 boxes I setup.
>  
>  Is this a common problem? How do others change screen resolution?
>  
>  I would be grateful for advice 
Try xrandr.

Also, in many cases you can simply remove (or rename) xorg.conf and the
driver will work it out for itself.

poc