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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