F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 00:30:26 -0400,
  Burkhard Plache <burkhardplache at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Fellow Users,
> 
> after installing F14, the monitor resolution defaults to 960x600,
> whereas my BenQ FP 757 has 1280 x 1024. There must be some
> interface (or driver?) problem, since Preferences->Monitor does not
> allow me to change to the desired resolution. I did not find any hints
> on how to proceed in the docs.fedoraproject.org F14 installation guide.

Does that monitor do proper EDID? If not you'll need to use an xorg.conf
file to add mode lines for it.