cant increase screen resolution

[Silver-0-surfer]

Hi

I just installed fedora 14 over windows, but Im stuck on 1024x768 screen resolution. Compiz and everything works (so Im assuming the driver is working) but I just cant increase the resolution, does anyone have any tips for me?

 

[Nod]

Go to "System Settings" then click on "Display and Monitor". This is where you'll find the resolution settings.
(This is on my Fedora 13 laptop)

 

[Silver-0-surfer]

Thanks, but thats were I went and was maxes out at 1024x768

 

[Happy Camper]

I would'nt assume it's working

Are you running nvidia? If so:

Fire up Synaptic and search for nvidia-settings, install it. Open up a terminal (do not open nvidia settings from the menu as it does not open with sudo priviledges). Type: gksudo nvidia-settings. Enter password.

It's quite a nifty prog, you can set your resolutions in there.

Save the settings, if it asks to merge with current xconfig say no. Restart your machine after saving.

edit/ just noticed you use fedore, so you won't have synaptic, use whatever package manager that comes bundled with fedora.

 

[Synaesthesia]

You have to edit xorg.conf with terminal. Solutions will be found on fedora forums.

I've had this issue before, I looked it up on the Ubuntu forums

 

[avert]

ctrl+alt++ and ctrl+alt+- used to do it back when redhat was the ****.dunno if it does anymore

 

[MyWorld]

What do you mean by this?

I just installed fedora 14 over windows

 

[Silver-0-surfer]

What do you mean by this?

I had windows and now I have fedora

 

[Silver-0-surfer]

well after all this time it is now fixed. If anyone else has the same issue, this is how I fixed it.

I need to create a modeline in Xorg.conf. to do this I ran

# gtf 1600 900 60

which outputs

Modeline "1600x900_60.00" 119.00 1600 1696 1864 2128 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync

add that under the monitor section of xorg.conf.

# killall Xorg

log in and I can now change the resolution,.