On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Daniel Blakemore <DanBlakemore(a)gmail.com>wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> Daniel Blakemore wrote:
>
>> I am new to fedora and to linux in general. I know a little bit of bash
>> because I have a mac but not enough. I just installed fedora core 10 i386
>> netinstall (the dvd-rom drive on this computer is thoroughly dead: stops
>> reading and needs to be unplugged and plugged back in every thirty of so
>> seconds), on an AMD with 1GB of RAM and a GeForce 5200 FX.
>> When I try to change the resolution, the drop-down only goes to 720x400.
>> I tried installing the nvidia driver and it broke X beyond what my linux
>> friend can fix. I did a fresh install and now I have the same problem.
>> Please help.
>>
>
> What is your monitor? Is it Play and Pray compliant? Does it tell X11
> the correct information?
>
> I have no problems getting higher resolutions on my F10 system (with a
> Radeon 7000 driver), and a Dell Dimension 4300 using a Live CD.
>
> Which "nvidia" drive did you try and install? Was it an RPM from
> RPMFusion or ATRpms? Or did you try the nvidia installer?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>>
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I used the .run driver from nvidia's website for 32-bit linux:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.18-pkg1.run
I ran system-config-display, or whatever it is called, to make an
xorg.conf, and it knows the correct monitor model number and driver, it
knows the graphics card model. When i go to
System>Preferences>Hardware>Screen Resolution, the screen is labeled unknown
and I can't see beyond the resolution drop-down because the window goes
below the screen.
It was plug an play for my vista machine and this mac. It is a AOC 2230Fa
LCD.
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Daniel Blakemore
I edited xorg.conf in the screen section with Modes "1440x900"
"1024x768"
"800x600"
and it worked fine.
I'd like to close this thread or whatever the correct procedure is.
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Daniel Blakemore