xorg (screen resolution) in F14

[JD]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:25 PM, <reg at dwf.com> wrote:

>
> For reasons that I don't need to go into here, I keep copies of
> Fedora F6, F11, and F14 on different partitions of a disk.  I will
> be adding F16 to this collection in the next few weeks.
>
> But, in looking at my F14 installation, I note an X11 problem.
> Im not sure who is maintaining the Feodra X11 these days
> so Ill ask the question here.
>
> My xorg.conf is the same for all of these installations, and the
> mode line reads
>
>    Modes   "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>
> and older X11s chooses the "1280x1024" resolution as my default.
>
> In F14 it chooses "1024x768" which screws up the screen organization
> for testing software.
>
> Now some quick experiments show that if I connect the monitor
> directly to the computer (rather than thru the kvm), this works
> fine with F14.  So it is the kvm that is causing the problem.  But the
> kvm is too dumb to program in any other manner, so the question
> is, is there a way to FORCE F14 to use the mode I want, or to SET
> whatever variable it is using to determine that the higher resolution
> is acceptable?
>
> I have tried a few things (like only one thing on the Modes line) with
> no success, so I'm looking for someone who knows more about the
> internals of X11 than I do.
>

Take a look at the the manufacturer's specs of your KVM
to see what resolutions it supports.
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