keep xorg from auto-detecting

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Tue Dec 18 18:25:53 UTC 2007


Brain Centipedes wrote:
> Yes.  it's an ATi card, using the radeon driver.
>
> On Dec 16, 2007 6:15 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net 
> <mailto:tom.horsley at att.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:09:35 -0600
>     "Brain Centipedes" <brain.centipedes at gmail.com
>     <mailto:brain.centipedes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > So I edited xorg.conf, but X is ignoring the settings in
>     > the conf file and still trying to detect things itself.
>
>     Is this an ATI card using the radeon driver? If so, the
>     current driver will utterly refuse to use user specified
>     mode lines. I believer there is already an xorg bugzilla
>     on this (and maybe even an upstream fix that hasn't made
>     it to fedora updates yet).
>
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Then use the user preferences to set resolution.  It is a pain to dig it 
back out if you copy your home directory to different systems, but it works.

System/Preferences/Hardware/Resolution

Good Luck!




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