Cannot change screen resolution in F10

[raveyd]

Hi. Just downloaded F10 and like the look of it (nice animations on boot up!!!).

Unfortunately I'm stuck with low screen resolution. My monitor is capable of 1280x1024, but the only options I have in Hardware->Screen Resolution are 680x420 (I think) and something even lower. The Screen Resolution application has a big pink box in it with "Unknown" written in it. If I click on "Detect Screens" nothing happens.

Any ideas what I should do?

I've got a Samsung Syncmaster 710N flat panel monitor, plugged into a Radeon X300 card.

RD

[spynic]

does system-config-display open?

[skolnick]

Is your video card properly configured? (correct drivers) it seems you have an issue there.

Regards.

[arizwebfoot]

I'm having the same problem and there isn't a xorg.conf file.

[arizwebfoot]

My drivers works fine with Fedora 9, the difference is that I can't choose the monitor or edit the video card settings.

[raveyd]

how do I check if I have the correct drivers? I will check if system-config-display opens when I get home.

[raveyd]

system-config-display didn't work.

So I installed it.

Now I managed to configure my display properly and have nice high resolution.

Thanks!!!

[noXstyle]

Hi there,

how exactly were you able to do that? system-config-display only gives me same low resolution choices... and i have radeon in use as it should be... yes, it does write a xorg.conf file and no, the changes made to that file wont affect to anything...

so release me from these growing pains and tell me how.

thanks.

[raveyd]

I'm no expert....but here's what I did:
- Run system-config-display from a terminal
- Go to the Hardware Tab
- Select the correct screen resolution or your type of monitor
- log out and log in again
- go to system->preferences->hardware->screen resolution
- change resolution (you should now have more options)

It's still doing something a bit funny when I start up (looks like the boot up resolution is different)...but that's not really a problem.

Hope that helps

[noXstyle]

Oh yeah, forgot completely about the monitor. thanks for that.

I was able to set a 1024x768 resolution.. anyhow trying to get a 1280x1024 gives me a 'mode not supported' and breaks the X server, awesome.. and if i already have set the 1024x768 chances made in config-display have no effect.

does anyone know a way to manually configure this without the xorg.conf file?