Fedora 12, Xorg, and Apex Outlook KVM, - can't nail resolution

[Styma, Robert E (Robert)]

> > I appreciate any time and help which can be offered.
> 
> Getting X to pay attention to a custom setting has
> become increasingly difficult. They ignored EDID monitor
> info for 20 years, then instantly transitioned to ignoring
> user specified settings. I waged a battle several releases
> ago documented here:
> 
> http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html
> 
> I doubt any of the specific things I found will help, but
> perhaps the general technique will work: Look at the xorg
> log file for the message that says why it ignored your setting,
> then look through the source of the X server and driver for
> your video card to see where it prints that message and if
> there is some setting you can change in xorg.conf to make
> it get farther. Iterate till success or you throw yourself
> off a high building :-).
> 
> Or if you really want to perform a service for the linux
> community, you could travel the incredibly steep learning
> curve on EDID and xorg software and provide a new module
> for X that lets you plug in custom EDID info to override
> the stuff it tries to get from the monitor (shouldn't take more
> the 3 or 4 years to come up to speed...)
> --
 
As the number of years to retirement is getting into the single
digits, I might just do that.  Thank you for the suggestions.

Bob