Problem controlling display/screen with xorg.conf

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 13:57:14 UTC 2010


On 20 September 2010 06:37, Dick Roark <linuxguy.sg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Along with (apparently) other OPs, I am having problems with my F13 screen.
> Fedora works well but I am not able to configure a 1280x1024 display. I have
> generated xorg.conf using system-config-display.  When I put it in the X11
> folder and reboot, the system stops short of booting a kernel and stops in a
> non-GUI mode. With a clean install, I am able to install F13 with a 1024x768
> and smaller displays. From the postings, I can see that others are having
> the same problem.  My last attempt was from an nicely working 1024x768
> system. I generated xorg.conf using system-config-display, edited it to
> incude 1280x1024 and placed it in X11.  When I rebooted, the system came up
> in a non-GUI init. I hope someone can supply the last step to this puzzle.

The convention these days is to have no xorg.conf, have everything
setup on the fly. You didn't mention your graphics hardware either.
Maybe you are using inappropriate drivers?

> Thanks.
>

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