monitor out of range

lectrospin · #1 14th December 2006, 07:48 PM

just installed fedora core 6, can someone explain how to get it to display in range?

JN4OldSchool · #2 14th December 2006, 07:59 PM

You will have to edit xorg.conf and add the line:

modes "1280x1024"

to the bottom of the display section. Edit the screen res. to what yours is.

lectrospin · #3 14th December 2006, 10:47 PM

can you explain how? cause at the moment i cant see anything.

JN4OldSchool · #4 14th December 2006, 10:56 PM

ha, lol! That does pose a bit of a problem doesnt it? Well, short of hooking up another monitor I think your best bet would be to DL a live Linux CD, unless you already have one. Then you can boot into that and get into the FC6 partition to change the xorg.conf. Short of that I guess youd have to reinstall using the modes argument at the install prompt.

ordinary · #5 14th December 2006, 11:19 PM

You don't need another live CD if you have the install CDs. Just pop in the install CD, at the prompt enter "linux rescue" and follow your nose.

When you get a shell prompt, edit the file in /mnt/sysimage/... or "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and edit the file where you expect it.

At least FC5 had a rescue mode, I ain't up to FC6 yet.

lectrospin · #6 15th December 2006, 12:20 AM

well i used a live cd. This is the screen section from xorg.conf. Does depth refer to colour depth? Can i get rid of it all but the resolution i'm going to use?

Quote:

Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection

JN4OldSchool · #7 15th December 2006, 12:34 AM

I dont know why you have all those mode listings. Here is a copy of mine:

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

This should be all you need to get started.

lectrospin · #8 15th December 2006, 01:13 AM

sorry that was the wrong file, that's the ubuntu live file. The FC6 is the same as yours. I edited it and am going to try it now.

lectrospin · #9 27th December 2006, 07:43 PM

still no luck. I've tried modes that are in range and they dont display.