FC5: video resolution problem

[Myles Green]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:38:34 -0400
starcycle at gmail.com wrote:

> when i boot normally, i can only get a max. resolution of 800x600 at
> 16 depth. when i add vga=775 to the grub kernel line, i can boot to my
> LCD max resolution 1280x1024, but i lose the direct rendering. my card
> is a matrox G450 and i have a samsung 172t LCD, but i'm using the
> generic LCD option which seems to be working. has anyone seen this, or
> have any suggestions?

Yes, put grub.conf back to it's original content (replace the vga=775
line with vga=normal) and modify the "screen" section in
your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to look like this:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

FWIW, all I did was to add the "1280x1024" and "1024x768" entries in
the 'Modes' line and then restart X and you should end up with your
desired resolution(s). 

HTH, Myles
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Myles Green
Geek by nature. Linux by choice.
Fedora Core 6 ("Zod")