Okay, here's what happened...I installed Fedora Core 8, noticed the resolution was rather low (800X600), so I checked the Display settings, and it wouldn't let me turn it up. I then went and checked the Monitor and Graphics Card drivers, and found the graphics card installed okay(I think?), but not my monitor, and upon checking the list of monitor drivers, I found that my monitor model wasn't on the list, therefore, I just selected the generic CRT 1280X1024, it said to reboot or log off so the changes could take effect, so I logged off...and BAM....my monitor light went from green to yellow, and just sat there....so I rebooted, it loaded the text and whatnot before the login screen, but then went black, and my monitor light went from green to yellow again....so, after a couple reboots, I did another entire install (cause I'm the ultimate linux newbie, with no idea how to reset monitor drivers :-P), thus getting me to where I am - back at square one, stuck with a 800X600 display, which causes some boxes to stretch below the bottom of the screen, and therefore makes it impossible to change options/click buttons that are pushed below the screen.
So, who wants to help a noob? Come on! you know you wanna help a computer geek be rid of that curse called Windows! :-D.

Tib

Dear, dear, poor penguin.

Consider some stuff which might help you:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

A file which configures your x

SaX2

A tool for configuring X stuff (actually it is not only a tool).

and drivers for your nvidia or ati card. I can't help you with that, ask the fedora people what they have to solve it. I think there are nvidia driver rpm's.

Good luck!

Well...

Xorg.conf has nothing in it dealing with the resolution size (that I can see, anyway).

I'm unable to find SaX2.

I'm unable to find drivers for my graphics card (Radeon X1300 Pro), and the ATI drivers page says this:

The latest version of the ATI Proprietary Linux Graphics Driver is designed to support the following Linux distributions:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite
* Novell/SuSE product suite


I've seen multiple threads saying that Livna.org had Nvidia and ATI drivers, but all I can find are the Nvidia ones....and I still can't find any drivers for my monitor (NEC MultiSync 77F) .

Any help is greatly appreciated!


Tib

Hi decoy

If u want any success with drivers from ATI in linux, there are 2 options I have personally seen working - either get a redhat or opensuse distro so drivers will work ok (I have only tested opensuse, and u get 3d drivers installed ok, but however, you will not get any 3d desktop effects - it seems drivers are not compatible with the X erver) - or switch to mandriva 2008 distro, which has some drivers for this card builtin and everything will work okay. At least for a couple of moments ... check out this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post2996284

There might well be other options of which I am not aware.

Good luck

For me it doesn't seem to matter if the ATI driver, which never ever in a million trys has ever seemed to work, is on or not. In F8 go to the top menu-System, Preferences, Hardware, Screen Resolution -se;ect then hit Apply and that seems to instantly change vs the old rebooting X after res change.

yes, Fedora 8 has many bugs.
I try to install fedora 8 on vmware 5.4, everything is ok, but i can't change display settings,then i install vmware tools,after i reboot, i can't login Xwindows, it saids " xorg.conf error".

at last,i find a solution.
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf ( vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf)
add following code

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "vmware"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
HorizSync 31.5 - 67.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection


find section which named "ServerLayout"
add code between Section and EndSection.

InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

save xorg.conf, run "startx".

EternalDecoy, open a terminal. Login as root by typing su and entering the root password. Type cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf and post the output here. Also, tell me what brand and model your monitor and your video card are. We'll get you going in short order.