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Re: Setting display resolution not working

  • Subject: Re: Setting display resolution not working
  • From: Ignoramus4235 <ignoramus4235@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:58:52 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
  • References: <_A2Gg.110501$tV1.33557@fe42.usenetserver.com> <ic3bbr2h00.fsf@mk.telcordia.com> <14297633.AQTjhGbteT@schestowitz.com> <k9oGg.26994$T77.14020@fe64.usenetserver.com> <I3pGg.16859$o27.2116@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:54:00 GMT, Allen Kistler <ackistler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ignoramus4235 wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:22:45 +0100, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ignoramus16089 <ignoramus16089@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Fedora Core 5.
>>>>>
>>>>> Upgraded my PC (basically got everything new, but kept hard drives).
>>>>>
>>>>> It works great with my old Compaq P110 monitor. Even, to my surprise,
>>>>> the Ethernet adaptor built into the motherboard. Everything is perfect
>>>>> and required zero system meddling, even though I have a new CPU, new
>>>>> memory, new ethernet, new everything (OK I have not yet tried
>>>>> sound).
>>>>>
>>>>> I also bought myself a new nice 24" LCD monitor. It has resolution of
>>>>> 1920x1200, 60 Hz.
>>>
>>> That's why I like SUSE. From the command line, yast2 can be launched (ncurses
>>> UI) and then sax2 be used to generate the Xorg settings file. With most
>>> monitors, X will fall back to some coarse resolution that allows sax2 to do
>>> it all from the graphical GUI. It's largely automated.
>> 
>> is not there a similar tool for fedora core? (text based, this display
>> DOES NOT support 640x480 resolution)
>
> system-config-display
>
> Run it in run level 2 or 3 as root.

I think that I tried it, it failed with same error message. (runlevel 3)

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