From: Anthony Messina <amessina(a)messinet.com>
To: Community support for Fedora users
<users(a)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