Screen resolution - cant change from 640 x 480

[Tjobbe]

Hi everyone,

I have just installed fedora core2 on an old system (PII, 300 MHZ) and it works fine!

the only thing is, I cant change the resolution from 640 x 480 pxs. I have gone to Preferences > Screen Resolution and the only options it gives me is the 640 x 480. nothing else. is this a bug or my pc's fault?

I have a 17 inch dell monitor - 18 months old, and a 32MB grapfics card.

everything looks and works fine, just the damm resolution.

how do i change it?? I'm quite a novice so would need a bit of help on this, thanks in advance!

Tjobbe

[sayeeth]

What graphic card are you using? Nvidia/ ATI or otherwise?

[TheJkWhoSaysNi]

Sounds like you need new drivers. You could change the resolution in /etc/X11/xorg.conf dont know whether it would work. But i suggest trying 800x600 just to test if it will adjust the resolution.

[Tjobbe]

i have an "Elsa cladiac 511 PCI, powerred by Nvidia geforce 2 mx400" (32MB)

if that helps.

I changed the card in system devices > hardware or something like that from something TO the Nvidia geforce MX. after that I was asked to restart and since then Xserver hasnt been able to find my monitor. how do i reconfigure the monitor and graphics card??


all i get is the dos type logon screen. and it doesnt go to the graphical one.

hope you can help me, thanks.

[Tjobbe]

sorry that should read "Gladiac"

[Chas.H]

Originally Posted by Tjobbe

I have gone to Preferences > Screen Resolution and the only options it gives me is the 640 x 480. nothing else. is this a bug or my pc's fault?

Have you tried: Systems Settings > Display?

There are three tabs on the dialog screen:

Settings
Hardware
Dual head

You should be able to find the settings you need there. The first and most obvious is the Resolution dropDown on the Settings tab.

***use caution on this next bit***
If that doesn't help check the Hardware Tab and make sure it is all correct. Since you need to enter the root password you need to be careful here because you can do anything, including making it worse.

Since you have only one monitor you don't need to mess with Dual head and you may not have that tab anyway.

[imdeemvp]

you need to install nvidia drivers.... www.nvidia.com READ intructions carefully!

ALSO run system-display-config and under the Hardware TAB select the proper video driver

[Tjobbe]

I can NOT get into the graphical display of fedora, all I have is the DOS type logon screen as I said above. This is after I went into "Systems Settings > Display" to change the hardware. I change dmy grpahics card TO an nvidia geforce 2 generic, thought this would be ok but upon restarting it would not load the xserver.

HOW do I manually re-configure the graphics card or re-set it to what it was before I changed it?

I have no idea what I should be doing once i have logged into the root of the dos interface, any help apreciated, thanks!

[Chas.H]

In that case, I would take imdeemvp's advice and get the drivers from nvidia. Apart from reading Nvidia's instructions I can't tell you much about that instillation because I don't have that card.

However, after you finish that installation, you should be able to boot into Xwindows even if it is still 640 x 480. From there you can follow my steps above to make your changes. Changes made there are saved in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as TheJkWhoSaysNi stated. You may want to have a look at that file to make sure changes made in 'Systems Settings > Display' are reflected in the xorg.conf.

Take it one step at a time and you'll get there...

Here if a quick howto for nvidia.

[murtle]

Did you configure your monitor in Display preferences Hardware tab?

Set it 1280x1024 CRT. It would be ok.