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From: Ramon F Herrera on 5 Jul 2010 11:18 I just installed Fedora. Have always used Red Hat Enterprise Edition and had the same problem in the past. I am trying to set up the networking parameters. When I click on the Ethernet dialog, it is so large that I cannot see the bottom part (boy, talk about crappy coding!). My monitor has high resolution, but the "identify monitor" feature in Fedora does not seem to work. The drop down menu has 800x600 as it highest resolution. How can I increase the choices of resolution seen in that drop down menu, or through any other means? TIA, -Ramon
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 5 Jul 2010 11:52 On Jul 5, 11:18 am, Ramon F Herrera <ra...(a)conexus.net> wrote: > I just installed Fedora. Have always used Red Hat Enterprise Edition > and had the same problem in the past. > > I am trying to set up the networking parameters. When I click on the > Ethernet dialog, it is so large that I cannot see the bottom part > (boy, talk about crappy coding!). You should be able to switch to runlevel 3 by becoming root or using sudo and typing "telinit 3". Then you can backup your /etc/X11 directory (just in case), and run the command "system-config-display" That should present plenty of options to select graphics card and monitor characteristics to improve your options. > My monitor has high resolution, but the "identify monitor" feature in > Fedora does not seem to work. The drop down menu has 800x600 as it > highest resolution. > > How can I increase the choices of resolution seen in that drop down > menu, or through any other means? > > TIA, > > -Ramon
From: Robert Heller on 5 Jul 2010 12:55 At Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Ramon F Herrera <ramon(a)conexus.net> wrote: > > > I just installed Fedora. Have always used Red Hat Enterprise Edition > and had the same problem in the past. > > I am trying to set up the networking parameters. When I click on the > Ethernet dialog, it is so large that I cannot see the bottom part > (boy, talk about crappy coding!). > > My monitor has high resolution, but the "identify monitor" feature in > Fedora does not seem to work. The drop down menu has 800x600 as it > highest resolution. > > How can I increase the choices of resolution seen in that drop down > menu, or through any other means? You need to hand edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Add a line like: Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" in the "Screen" section, in the "Display" subsection. You might need to diddle with the HorizSync/HorizSync settings in the "Monitor" section. Be sure to have your monitor's specs at hand to make sure you put the proper numbers there! It is possible to set a larger *virtual* resolution and then 'scroll' through this in the case that your monitor just can't deal with more physical screen pixels. You should be aware that it is possible to damage *older* CRT screens when driving them are vertical or horizontal rates they are not designed to handle. Modern LCD screens probably can't be damaged -- they will just display a message like 'unsupported video rate'. It is *strongly* recomended to change your runlevel to 3 (edit /etc/inittab) while you are fiddling with xorg.conf -- you can always back out of bad xorg.conf settings with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and edit xorg.conf from the console screen. > > TIA, > > -Ramon > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
From: Ramon F Herrera on 5 Jul 2010 13:30 On Jul 5, 10:52 am, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 5, 11:18 am, Ramon F Herrera <ra...(a)conexus.net> wrote: > > > I just installed Fedora. Have always used Red Hat Enterprise Edition > > and had the same problem in the past. > > > I am trying to set up the networking parameters. When I click on the > > Ethernet dialog, it is so large that I cannot see the bottom part > > (boy, talk about crappy coding!). > > You should be able to switch to runlevel 3 by becoming root or using > sudo and typing "telinit 3". > > Then you can backup your /etc/X11 directory (just in case), and run > the command "system-config-display" That should present plenty of > options to select graphics card and monitor characteristics to improve > your options. Thanks for another life-saver tip, Nico!! Just for the record, I also found an apropos command: http://www.perpetualpc.net/srtd_resolution.html Gracias! -Ramon
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