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Originally posted by spednik
Hey there.
I have a Dell inspiron 1100, and i just installed Fedora Core 4 on it yesterday. The computer has 512 mb of ram, 30gb HD, and BIOS A32.
The problem is that the screen resolution is set at 640x400, with no way to change it in any of the menus.
I'm a hopeless noob, and have no idea how to fix this. If someone could give me step by step way to fix it, it would be great. thanks in advance for any help.
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You could manually enter the resolution in the xorg/XF86 config file. I am not sure which one of the two x-servers, Fedora Core 4 uses, but its not hard to find out.
If you see an xorg.conf file then you are using xorg if you see an X86Config-4, then you are using XFree86.
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Navigate to this section in your config file, where it says modes, just enter the resolution that you want in quotes. When I do it this way I add the resolution to all the color depths. to save your changes in vi, hit ESC then Shift + : and then type wq
Code:
ection "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
Monitor "DELL M990"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Here is an example of my modded config file with my x-server running at 1280x1024
Code:
ection "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
Monitor "DELL M990"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Restart the x-server and you should be good!