xorg.conf and Nouveau

[Steven I Usdansky]

From: Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com>
>To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org> 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:24 PM
>Subject: Re: xorg.conf and  Nouveau
> 
>On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 05:17:25 PM Jim wrote:
>> Fedora 17 / KDE
>> 
>> Can I use the nouveau driver in xorg.conf to Lock in the resolution ?.
>> 
>> I have a computer that defaults to 1920x1080 and that resolution is to 
>> high, and I have a older friend that will be using this computer and I 
>> want to Lock into
>> 1280x1024x75 .
>> 
>> I don't want to use the nvidia drivers they are to unstable and nouveau 
>> drivers
>> are doing a good job on this computer.
>
>Try adding something like the following to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, where 
>the "Identifier" is what you get from `xrandr -q`.
>
>Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier   "DVI-I-1"
>        Option       "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Device0"
>        Driver      "nouveau"
>EndSection
>
>
>-A

From my xorg.conf file (monitor does not properly report EDID): 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier   "Monitor0"

VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName    "Monitor Model"
DisplaySize  432270
HorizSync    30.0 - 86.0
VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
ModeLine     "1440x900" 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -hsync +vsync
ModeLine     "1680x1050" 147.1 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync
Modeline     "1920x1080"  172.80  1920 2040 2248 2576  1080 1081 1084 1118  -HSync +Vsync
Option    "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Card0"
Monitor    "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     24
Modes    "1920x1080" "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024"

EndSubSection

EndSection