Screen Resolution can not be set to 1024x768

saran · #1 14th January 2009, 05:50 PM

I am using Mercury p4VM800 mother Board and Intel PIV 2 GHz Processor. I have installed the fedora 10 Today. My screen resolution was automatically set to 650x480 and this is the only option available in graphical mode. I am not able to increase the resolution to 1024x768. I once again reinstalled the F10. during the installation, in the boot: option I have entered 'linux resolution=1024x768' . but it won't work. Can anybody help me to resolve the resolution problem?

brian928 · #2 17th January 2009, 12:56 AM

I was hoping someone would have helped as I was having the same issue. I think I have it solved now. Most forum posts says to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fix this kind of problem. I did not have this file. I went here:
and installed the
system-config-display program. It was not included in my distribution. This allowed me to configure my display
properly.

HTH,
Brian

WillGolfForFood · #3 17th January 2009, 02:51 PM

My Install distro of Fedora 10 had the same problem. It defaulted to 800x600 and would only go huge and enormous from there. I use 1024x768 for every other distro that I have loaded, so it was clear that it is a Fedora 10 installation problem. Brian928 is exactly right, you likely do not have the system-config-display program.
su -c 'yum install system-config-display'

It will likely also install/update rhpxl as a dependency. When that is successful do the following:
1) System/Administration/Display, Hardware - pick your monitor
2) System/Administration/Display, Settings - configure the resolution you want
3) System/Preferences/Hardware/Screen Resolution - configure the resolution you want to use
4) Log off and back on - all should be good.

It is a bit of a pain but that worked for me. I just did it an hour ago to fix my display. My assessment is the distro build that I got is incomplete. The display program should OBVIOUSLY be included as standard.

Hope this helps!

burnie · #4 18th January 2009, 01:53 AM

Brian928, saran - see; http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...06&postcount=2

saran · #5 26th January 2009, 10:26 AM

Thanks Brian,
I have tried as you told, but it won't work. I have downloaded the system-config-display rpm and installed it. When I try to set the resolution it asked me to logout from the user. After loggout, my screen goes blank.