Fedora 17 / KDE

Can I use the nouveau driver in xorg.conf to Lock in the resolution ?.

I have a computer that defaults to 1920x1080 and that resolution is to
high, and I have a older friend that will be using this computer and I
want to Lock into

1280x1024x75 .

I don't want to use the nvidia drivers they are to unstable and nouveau
drivers

are doing a good job on this computer.
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On 09/18/2012 02:17 PM, Jim wrote:

I don't want to use the nvidia drivers they are to unstable and nouveau
drivers
are doing a good job on this computer.


Are you referring to the binary blob from nVidia, or the repackaged
kmod-nvidia. If the latter, I've been having nothing but good luck with
them on this computer for years.

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On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 05:17:25 PM Jim wrote:
> Fedora 17 / KDE
>
> Can I use the nouveau driver in xorg.conf to Lock in the resolution ?.
>
> I have a computer that defaults to 1920x1080 and that resolution is to
> high, and I have a older friend that will be using this computer and I
> want to Lock into
> 1280x1024x75 .
>
> I don't want to use the nvidia drivers they are to unstable and nouveau
> drivers
> are doing a good job on this computer.

Try adding something like the following to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, where
the "Identifier" is what you get from `xrandr -q`.

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DVI-I-1"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nouveau"
EndSection


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On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 17:17 -0400, Jim wrote:
> I have a computer that defaults to 1920x1080 and that resolution is to
> high, and I have a older friend that will be using this computer and I
> want to Lock into 1280x1024x75

There's at least two ways to do it:

Increase the font sizes, leave the resolution at what it is (which is
important with LCD panels, which do not scale well - you end up with
fuzzy hard to read text, compared to larger and clearly defined text).

In the personal preferences for the user, select the resolution that
they'll use. Rather than try to change the system settings.

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From: Anthony Messina <amessina@messinet.com>
>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:24 PM
>Subject: Re: xorg.conf and**Nouveau
>
>On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 05:17:25 PM Jim wrote:
>> Fedora 17 / KDE
>>
>> Can I use the nouveau driver in xorg.conf to Lock in the resolution ?.
>>
>> I have a computer that defaults to 1920x1080 and that resolution is to
>> high, and I have a older friend that will be using this computer and I
>> want to Lock into
>> 1280x1024x75 .
>>
>> I don't want to use the nvidia drivers they are to unstable and nouveau
>> drivers
>> are doing a good job on this computer.
>
>Try adding something like the following to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, where
>the "Identifier" is what you get from `xrandr -q`.
>
>Section "Monitor"
>* * * * Identifier***"DVI-I-1"
>* * * * Option* * ***"PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Device"
>* * * * Identifier* "Device0"
>* * * * Driver* * * "nouveau"
>EndSection
>
>
>-A

From my xorg.conf file (monitor does not properly report EDID):*

Section "Monitor"

Identifier * "Monitor0"

VendorName * "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName * *"Monitor Model"
DisplaySize *432270
HorizSync * *30.0 - 86.0
VertRefresh *56.0 - 76.0
ModeLine * * "1440x900" 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -hsync +vsync
ModeLine * * "1680x1050" 147.1 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync
Modeline * * "1920x1080" *172.80 *1920 2040 2248 2576 *1080 1081 1084 1118 *-HSync +Vsync
Option * *"PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device * * "Card0"
Monitor * *"Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport * 0 0
Depth * * 24
Modes * *"1920x1080" "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024"

EndSubSection

EndSection

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