stuck w/ a 640 x 480 resolution - Dell 828656 Graphics controller

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Jul 15 11:50:26 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:48:02AM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 1) Is there a way to get the resolution corrected to do better than 640 
> x 480, with this type of video card, using Fedora?

If you edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and uncomment the monitor frequency
values does it then allow you to use higher mode lines ? The 640x480 
limiting can occur due to inability to read monitor DDC values (that
is to ask the monitor what modes it supports)

Alan
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