X drives display at unusable settings

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 09:42 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> As per bug 446726,  I'm having trouble getting X in F9 to drive my
> monitor at usable settings. If my experimentation with
> system-config-display's command line options is any indication, I need
> to force usage of a vertical refresh rate of 60 Hz. But so far I haven't
> found the right incantation for xorg.conf. I've tried this
> unsuccessfully:
> 
>         Section "Device"
>                 Identifier  "Videocard0"
>                 Driver      "mga"
>         EndSection
>         
>         Section "Monitor"
>                 Identifier "Monitor0"
>                 VertRefresh 60
>         EndSection
>         
>         Section "Screen"
>                 Identifier "Screen0"
>                 Device     "Videocard0"
>                 Monitor    "Monitor0"
>                 DefaultDepth     24
>                 SubSection "Display"
>                         Viewport   0 0
>                         Depth     24
>                 EndSubSection
>         EndSection
>         
> Any suggestions?

Have you tried not configuring it? I found it worked better when I just
moved xorg.conf to one side (i.e. ran X without an xorg.conf).
Apparently this is the direction Xorg is taking for the future and at
least in some cases it works quite well.

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