F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

[Burkhard Plache]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> 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.

Appreciate the response.

I do not know how to find out if the monitor does proper EDID.
Can I query manually?

After reading up on this type of problem, there seem to be difficulties getting
xorg.conf utilized by X11. Currently, xorf.conf does not exist on my system.

Burkhard