FC3 - wrong screen resolution

[Jim Cornette]

Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
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> Hi,
> I have now installed fc3 to my desktop an IBM PC300PL with an IBM912
> T521 LCD screen the video card is VESA
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> I have the same problem as when installing fc2, however I have not kept
> the description on how this was fixed as I didn't believe the problem
> would return.
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> I am able to configure display settings correct, both screen and video
> card.  The problem is that the computer does not recognize this, though
> it looks like the background has the correct resolution.  However, all
> applications comes up with 640x480 resolution.
> 
> When I go to preferences ==> screen resolution the only option is 640x480.
> 
> Any suggestions?

I looked up the specs for your desktop. The video info is below. The 
vesa driver is sort of a generic driver. Is the S3 Trio listed?

Have you tried to add the desired resolution into your xorg.conf file? 
Say "1024x768" "800x600" in front of the "640x480" entry?

Jim

Monitor and Graphics	
Video Integration	Integrated
Installed Video Memory	4 MB
Included Video Card	Graphic card - AGP - S3 Trio3D integrated


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> Regards,
> Truls