need PreferredMode troubleshooting help

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 21 02:56:30 UTC 2013


On 2013-06-20 19:33 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

> 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.

Is there some material difference there between F18 and F19?

Would any of that be in any of these?
.bash_history
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.cache
.config
.cshrc
.dbus
.dmrc
.esd_auth
.fonts
.gstreamer-0.10
.gtkrc-2.0-kde4
.kde
.kderc
.local
.mc
.mozilla
.pki
.pulse-cookie
.tcshrc
.Xauthority
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