Rescuing a veteran : F14, PowerEdge SC1420, HP w2207h

[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:04:24 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:51 PM, I Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>        [....]
>>>        Today I put the F14 live CD into it, and rebooted without
>>>        even
>>> taking it out from behind the KVM switch. It found the proper numbers
>>> for the monitor (1680x1050 at 60 Hz) at once, by itself; the display
>>> looks fine.
>>>
>>>        How do I now get these numbers into the hard drive, where my
>>> install of regular F14 will find and use them??
>>
>> The liveCD probably just let X auto detect everything. I would try
>> renaming your xorg.conf to something like xorg.conf_backup and see if it
>> works.
>
>        *What* xorg.conf?? Fedora hasn't had one for the last couple of
> releases.

Well not by default anyway... I figured if the LiveCD worked then you
must have one present since they have basically the same software and
versions (other than updates).

Richard