Re: Adding screen resolutions
From: Max Khitrov (maximkh_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/30/03
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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:43:07 -0500
Ivan Marsh wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:22:30 -0500, Max Khitrov wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:18:49 -0500, Max Khitrov wrote:
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>>>>My monitor supports a maximum resolution of 1280x1024, but the largest
>>>>one that Fedora let's me select is 1280x960. Is there a way to add a
>>>>resolution manually? It detected both my monitor and my video card
>>>>correctly and both have no problems running at 1280x1024, just can't
>>>>select it.
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>/etc/X11/XF86Config
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>In the section that describes your video card there should be a line that
>says: VideoRam
>
>(Be careful editing this file. You can burn out a monitor pretty much
>instantly if you edit this file too creatively.)
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>If it lists less than 16megs then you aren't going to be able to see
>higher resolutions.
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>If it does list 16megs you probably don't have the best driver for the
>card or monitor selected.
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>I'm not sure what program Fedora uses to configure the X server (looks
>like it's still redhat-config-xfree) but it may have just probed the video
>card incorrectly. Re-run it and check to make sure what it thinks it's
>seeing is correct (esp. the monitor model and video ram).
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Don't have that line in XF86Config. Ran redhat-config-xfree86 and
everything is detected as it should be, still have no idea on what it
thinks my memory is though...
After taking another look at the max resolution it's even lower then i
thought... 1152x864
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