low res after F12 upgrade

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/19/2009 11:58 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:29 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote:
> 
>> You mentioned being able to "restore my F11 system from backup".
>> Did that backup have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
> 
> I tried this too. Installed the old xorg.conf file from F11. Still NO
> JOY. If the external monitor is connected, it won't do anything better
> than 800x600. This is a show stopper for me, I will have to go back to
> Fedora 11 unless I can find a way to disable the broken auto-probing of
> the external monitor and just force it to use 1024x768. There are no
> monitors I ever connect to that can't handle at least this resolution,
> so it should be safe if I can figure out how to do it.

Did you try booting with "nomodeset"

Rahul