LinuxQuestions.org - Problem with external monitor on Fedora 11

Hi,

I just did a fresh install of Fedora 11 on my MacBook Black. When I installed Fedora, I had to use the "basic Vesa video driver" option (or something like that; the regular installer would always get stuck in the beginning of the process).

Now that I have Fedora running, I'm trying to use an external Dell monitor 22' Widescreen. However, I can't find a way to configure it with the proper resolution.

The "Configure Display Settings" (or "Display Preferences") shows the monitor as "Unknown", with a max available resolution of 1024x768 (lower than the 1680x1050 I want), refresh rate of zero.

After reading a lot of suggestions online, I tried things like xrandr and system-config-display, but to tell the truth I don't fully understand yet how these things work.

Here's my output of xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 0.0*
800x600 0.0
640x480 0.0

And here's the output of when I try to run system-config-display, which is not working for some reason:
File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 376, in <module>
dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, rhpxl.videocard.VideoCardInfo())
File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 641, in __init__
if len(self.xconfig.layout[0].adjacencies) > 1:
IndexError: index out-of-bounds

I don't know where to go from here... Thanks in advance for any help!

Bruno

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PS. I found this related thread, but it didn't get me too far:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ettings+fedora