On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:15 +0100, John Whitley wrote:
> Having fresh installed Fedora 9, I am struggling with changing both the
> Monitor type and the screen resolution.
>
> System->Administration->Display->Hardware allowed ne to change the
> Monitor type to Generic LCD 1280x1024
>
> Further attempts do not update /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> Setting the monitor to 1280x1024 gave me a screen resolution of 1024x768
>
> Attempting to change this by either
> System->Preferences->Hardware->Screen Resolution or
> System->Administration->Display->Settings, I was only offered either the
> same or lower resolutions.
>
> Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a higher resolution solved the problem.
>
> In each case I was careful to make the change and then re-login.
>
> Looking at Redhat Bugzilla, it appears there have been problems with
> sys-config-display since Fedora 7 although I did not suffer with this on
> numerous Fedora 8 boxes I setup.
>
> Is this a common problem? How do others change screen resolution?
>
> I would be grateful for advice

Try xrandr.

Also, in many cases you can simply remove (or rename) xorg.conf and the
driver will work it out for itself.

poc

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