low res after F12 upgrade

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 13:54:39 -0700,
  Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:28 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You can probably make an xorg.conf file to get around this. 
> 
> I don't think I have enough knowledge of xorg.conf internals to do this.
> I may just have a go at an over-the-top install if this is my only
> option.

Here is a sample config I did for an nVidia card. You may need to change
some stuff. You can use cvt to make new mode lines.

# 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      "nouveau"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Virtual 1280 1024
		Depth     24
		Modes "1280x1024_70.00"
	EndSubSection
EndSection