F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 02/01/2011 05:25 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote:
> 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?

Look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file while X11 is running....

> 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.

Then look at your session log file (mentioned above) to see what X11 is
doing for you.

> Burkhard


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