low res after F12 upgrade

Wed Nov 18 22:52:24 UTC 2009

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 17:44:34 -0500,
  Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> What cvt command do you give to get modelines.
> I've tried using cvt without results.

[bruno at cerberus ~]$ cvt 1280 1024 70
# 1280x1024 69.83 Hz (CVT) hsync: 74.65 kHz; pclk: 129.00 MHz
Modeline "1280x1024_70.00"  129.00  1280 1368 1504 1728  1024 1027 1034 1069 -hsync +vsync

You check the stuff on the comment line against your video card's and monitor's
specs to make sure you aren't doing something bad.

cvt is provided by the xorg-x11-server-Xorg package so you should have it
on a machine using a graphic display.