need PreferredMode troubleshooting help

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jun 21 02:33:03 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 22:31 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> I have F19 on two systems I've been working with for the past two days trying 
> to isolate a Nouveau DVI problem, and in the process ran across this:
> 
> Only on the F19 system most recently updated (Tuesday, server 1.14.1), 
> PreferredMode in xorg.conf to override a CRT's optimal resolution either 
> never gets applied in the first place (Intel 4500 VGA1 or rv380 DVI-0 out), 
> or it doesn't stick (rv380 VGA-0 out).

If you're using GNOME, then your GNOME user's X config preferences as
expressed through the Displays applet (and dconf) will override
systemwide X settings.
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