system-config-display in F12 Beta fails with nouveau/Nvidia FX5200

[James Hubbard]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> On 10/26/2009 09:18 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> as I told in my previous email, it came up correctly when I installed F12
> Beta without changes.
>
> It did not work correctly when trying to create for fun a new xorg.conf (I
> wanted to test a reduced resolution 1024x768).

Did you remove the nomodeset option from the grub boot line?   I can't
change the resolution on my laptop without enabling modeset for
nvidia.