RedHat on Dell I8600

[Rick Stevens]

Yung H. wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I've just installed Fedora Core 2 on my Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Nvidia
> GeForce FX Go5200. Installation went smoothly, everything works just great,
> except for the screen resolution. In theory, I should be able to set the
> resolution to either of the following: 1920x1200, 1680x1050, or 1280x800.
> However, redhat just won't accept it. the screen works okay on the normal
> resolutions as 1152x768, 1024x768 though, but it looks pretty bad, reason I
> want to try to set the resolution to the ones it should be set to.
> 
> I checked the xorg.conf file, and actually Fedora took the Nvidia drivers
> just fine. On driver it says "nv" so I suppose that's correct. I changed the
> depth to 24, and then tried to set the resolutions, but then X won't start
> with these.

Check the memory size of the card in xorg.conf and make sure it reflects
how much RAM is actually on the card (it sometimes guesses wrong).  Also
use "system-config-display" and make sure you have the right monitor
specified there.  If the system got the monitor wrong, it won't let you
set up configurations that'll violate the monitor's sync rates.

When you change your resolution and it won't start, check the X logs
and see if there's an issue that's logged.
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