X server Resolution Catch-22 Fedora 12

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
<caf at omen.com> wrote:
> I have been using a 1993 Viewsonic 21 monitor for
> the console on the omen.com server.  The old jug
> isn't as sharp as it once was, but it still can do 1024x768
> or better.

There are a couple of items that could cause this:

1) the nvidia driver has dropped support for the video card you have.
however the xvesa card should work at 1024x768
2) more likely the monitor does not have a DMI probing and so the
video driver goes into safe mode of 800x600.

There are a couple of ways to try and fix this.
1) Make a custom xorg.conf file with the display set up for it.
2) Use xrandr to do it on the fly

xrandr --newmode "1024x768" .... fill in data for your monitor here
.... +hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 "1024x768"
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode "1024x768"x0.0

or something like that.



> Upon installing Fedora 12, I discovered that there in
> no longer a reasonable way to set anything higher
> than 800x600 with Xvesa or the default driver for
> Nvidia.  This is a major breakage as many applets are
> unusable at 800x600, including system management.
> Some of the menu is off the screen and there is no
> apparent way to get them to appear on screen.
>
> If utilities are unusable in 800x600
> the ability to manually set larger screen size
> that was present before Fedora 12 needs to be
> fixed.
>
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