Hi,
I just bought a new Lenovo system with a Viewsonic flatscreen LCD and am struggling to get the monitor to work properly. I installed FC5-x86-64, and cannot get the proper widescreen resolution of 1440x900 to work.
I either get 1280 x 1024 or 1600x1200 (in the latter case, the screen is too big to fit on the display and it pans as I reach the edge). In any case, the fonts and images look distorted. The display itself keeps throwing up a popup to set
the resolution to 1440x900 for optimal performance.

I tried putting in 1440x900 resolution using 915resolution, etc. it didn't work.

I have onboard graphics, lspci shows:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

I'm willing to put in almost any distribution if I can make this LCD display work.

thanks

Hangal

All you need to do is edit your /etc/xorg.conf file to the proper settings. It might be easier to login as root and just run xorgconf and enter all the values by hand instead of letting X do it for you. Be sure to back up your current xorg.conf though!!

Fedora should have a command
That will allow you to adjust screen resolution. Should also have a "screen size and rotate" somewhere in one of the menu's.

If all else fails edit your xorg.conf file to the proper resolution. Back it up first so you can restore it if you mess it up. I think it's somewhere like /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You'll have to be root to edit it. You'll have to quit X and restart it for the changes to take effect. Also learn the cp command first so that you can overwrite it if you mess it up. Sometimes you have to remove all other resolutions in the resolution line but the one you want to run.

Depth 16
"640x480 800x600 1280x960.....

system-config-display always worked in Fedora for me.