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Hi everybody I just recently installed Fedora 7 (i386 on an AMD X2) and I have been unable to properly configure my display. Fedora properly recognizes my display in the control panel:
Monitor Type: Dell 2007FP (Digital)
and I think it is recognizing my graphics card:
Video Card: ATI Technologies Inc [Radeon X1300/X1550 Serries]
(Secondary)
but when I try to change the screen resolution in the pull down menu I am limited to 1280x1024 when I know I should be able to display 1600x1200. As a result everything seems comically large!
I am relatively new to linux and could really use a hand!
Thanks for the help!
--Josh
Here is my xorg.conf
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Thanks for the quick reply!
Yeah I am positive it is capable of higher resolutions. It is natively 1600x1200 @ 60 Hz and it was operating like that using xp. Any other ideas?
Well I added the the resolution to the modes section but that didn't change the available resolutions on the gui pull down menu. Here is my modification with the UseEdid althought that didnt seem to fix things either:
I didn't realize there was a driver. I was of the understanding ati drivers for Fedora 7 did not exist. Is there an open source driver I could use thats not part of the fedora 7 install that would work? I am totally lost on this one.
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