Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Tony Nelson
<tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>> After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024
>> screen resolution.  Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was
>> using F11 at 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12.
>> After that, so far no joy.  I would appreciate any helpful info.  I
>> have also tried using various configurations of the xorg.conf and
>> xrandr without success.   Obviously, I'm missing something.  I feel
>> certain that the fix is right under my nose but so far, nothing
>> works.
>>
>> Here is my xorg.conf file:
>  ...
>
> Your /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be very helpful when diagnosing
> resolution problems, and when using KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting), the
> relevant parts of dmesg / var/log/messages.

Have you tried to set your display with

system-config-display

?

Paul