F11: low video resolution

[lanas]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:26:36 -0400,
lanas <lanas at securenet.net> wrote :

>   After the install and update (close to 600 packages were updated)
> of Fedora 11 x86_64 there is seemingly no way to specify which video
> adapter there is nor to specify which monitor is being used.  Hence,
> the resolution is low at 1280xSomething.  The video adapter is
> on-board and is a Nvidia.  How can the video adapter and monitor be
> specified.  I reckon they should be automagically detected, but there
> are not.

I found it.

yum install kmod-nvidia

Then reboot.  Screen resolution will now be at par with the graphics
card/monitor capabilities.