Fedora 7 display resolution

[majoneza]

Hello!

I'm new on this forum and I have a question:
I have a Toshiba Satelite M100-164 laptop and Fedora 7 installed. My screen in wide and has resolution 1280x800. But I can't set this resolution because it forces 1024x768. Even if I edit xorg.conf to set the 1280x800, then i can't start Xserver and I have to switch basck to default 1024x768. Can anybondy help me with this problem?
I even installed new drivers for ATI Mobility Radeon X1400, but with no success.

[FriedChips]

Post your xorg.conf file so people can help you better. Also post the output of glxinfo and fglrxinfo.

[majoneza]

OK, here is the output of glxinfo:

name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.2)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x22 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x3d 32 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None

then the output of fglrxinfo:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.2)

and the xorg.conf file:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

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

[FriedChips]

okay your ati drivers are not setup correctly. Edit your xorg.conf file

su -
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and replace this line in Device Section
Driver "vesa"

with this one
Driver "fglrx"

restart x with ctrl+alt+backspace

[majoneza]

Did as you replayed, but X server couldn't start. I had to load default setting again.

[Nezmin2]

Originally Posted by majoneza

Did as you replayed, but X server couldn't start. I had to load default setting again.

I am having the same issue...

[FriedChips]

okay this means that your ati drivers did not install properly. I find that it is easiest to install the kmod-fglrx drivers from repositories ( either livna or freshrpms ). some good info on doing this can be found here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=155503

you only need to follow up to step 4 for fc6 or step 3 for fc 7, unless you are interested in using beryl or compiz (which are pretty neat but take some time to get configured right.)

[FriedChips]

also make sure you have COMPLETELY removed the drivers you installed before... ATI supplies an uninstall script to make this easy. Instructions can be found on their website