Display resolution -

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 17:30:28 UTC 2014


On 10/02/2014 09:13 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 19:17:19 -0400,
>  "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>> I need to swap monitors as the backlight in my old Dell monitor grows 
>> dim. I have a Viewsonic vx2035WM that Fedora can never get the 
>> resolution right for. I've gone through the following process using 
>> information I found on Google.
>
> I have a monitor that doesn't properly do EDID and I use the following 
> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "single head configuration"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # keyboard added by system-config-display
>     Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>     Driver      "kbd"
>     Option        "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
>     Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier   "Monitor0"
>     ModelName    "NEC MultiSync LCD2010X"
>     HorizSync    31.0 - 80.0
>     VertRefresh  56.0 - 85.0
>     Modeline "1280x1024_70.00"  129.00  1280 1368 1504 1728  1024 1027 
> 1034 1069 -hsync +vsync
>     Option        "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "Videocard0"
>     Driver      "radeon"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "Screen0"
>     Device     "Videocard0"
>     Monitor    "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth     24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Modes "1280x1024_70.00"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
Hi Bruno,
Your conf file comment line says
Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

But I cannot find it in my fc20 installation.
You must be running an older fedora??




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