fglrx 7.12 resolution problem

[William Murray]

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 01:49 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> To OP (Bill)
> 
> Try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> see the section that looks like this...
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720"
> "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> (Note that the 'Modes' section is all on one line but will wrap into
> multiple lines in this e-mail.)
> 
> Add "1400x1050" into that line (make it the first resolution because
> the
> first listed is the first tried).
> 
> Then see what happens when you log out and log back in...I don't think
> it will take a restart to change it.
> 
> Craig
  As has been pointed out, modes doesn't work. Actually if you specify
just 1400x1050 you get a black screen - so it dos something!
   I have oped to 1280 for just now, but it causes problems .   
 Bill