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Hey everyone

Ive just installed Fedora Core 2 Test 3, I know its pretty buggy but Ive read this if fairly simple and easily fixed, unfortunately for me Im a Linux n00b. Soo, here is where the good people of Neowin come in...

Ive installed fine, set up most stuff, but I cant change my resolution at all no matter what monitor setting I use, so I went back to windows looked on google and it says simply edit the XF86Config

Right so I go back to fedora, but its a read only fine, can someone please tell me how to edit it or if there is any other way of getting round this.

Thanks in Advance!

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switch user to root, by typing "su root" in console (followed by password), then type in "vi /path/to/XF86Config" then you should be able to write to it (i suppose you installed VI editor with Fedora, otherwise login with root when you start fedora and open any editor from there)

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Well I tried editing that file, added the resolutions I wanted. But still no luck, The resolutions do not come up on the "display" settings or on the "screen resolution" program under preferences.

Any suggestions?

BTW I have a nVidia 256, with a Dell 19" Trinitron monitor.

Any suggestions would be appretiated

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ok everyone you are all close but slightly off. Fedora Core 2 Test 3 uses xorg-x11 not xfree86 so your conf file is /etc/X11/xorg.conf and that would be what you need to edit. Here is an example of my section for your viewing pleasure

Section "Device"

Identifier "Videocard0"

Driver "nvidia"

VendorName "Gainward"

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 (XT)"

Option "NoLogo"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"

Device "Videocard0"

Monitor "Monitor0"

DefaultDepth 16

SubSection "Display"

Depth 24

Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 16

Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubSection

EndSection

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Well Ive tried editing and SAVING (lol) that file as well, but when i go to settings to set the resolution the modes that i have added are not there. Infect when I go back to the xorg file it automatically changes to what it was before, removing the resolutions I added!

Any more suggestions?

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Well Ive tried editing and SAVING (lol) that file as well, but when i go to settings to set the resolution the modes that i have added are not there. Infect when I go back to the xorg file it automatically changes to what it was before, removing the resolutions I added!

Yes I have this problem too :( I haven't found a fix yet either. :no:

Also, every time I boot it insists on asking what monitor I have.

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Yeah I dont get it, do you think its a problem with Fedora or the monitor or graphics card we are using?

btw, so you cant get your resolution above <800x600?

It sucks, might have a look at fedora bugzilla, see if its listen there

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Yes, I'm stuck at 800x600 - really annoying on my LCD monitor because it's so blurry. My GFX card is a Geforce MX460 and my monitor is a Philips 150C.

PS, by using the control panel once I'm at the desktop I am sometimes able to set it back to 1024x768.

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Well if you go on to fedora bugzilla,

I have made a list of IDs concerning our problem...browse through those:

108954

121717

121766

121820

121946

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One last thing to try (if you haven't already)...

Use CTRL+ALT+[num pad plus] or CTRL+ALT+[num pad minus] to change X resolutions on-the-fly.

I am pretty sure it will just use what is in your XF86Config (or xorgconfig) to walk through the resolutions, but it is a hell of a lot easier than suing, editing, saving, quitting X, restarting X, etc.

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