LCD screen resolution problem
Gustavo Seabra
seabra at ksu.edu
Tue Nov 23 22:57:25 UTC 2004
Tom Sheridan wrote:
> Hi volker
>
>>> The list of monitors is displayed, and I can scroll down and select
>>> one,
>>> for example the Generic LCD option, but I can't apply it because the
>>> button is greyed out. I can't even apply the Generic CRT option.
>>> The result is that I only have the choice of 800x600 and 640x480.
>>> I've looked at the /etc/x11/xorg.conf file but I can't see an obvious
>>> way to change this manually. Any ideas, anyone?
>>
>>
>> would you mind to post your xorg.conf?
>
>
> OK, it's attached to this post.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
We had the same problem here and the way we solved was by manually
selecting the kind of monitor. In our case, it was a Dell something,
where something is the maximum resolution. For some reason, Fedora just
didn't recognize it but, if you "hold its hand and show the way" it has
the drivers.
Gustavo.
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