High definition video processing with maximum resolution of 1920x1440 pixels (@75Hz) for RGB display etc. I have a monitor which supports 1920 x 1200 and would like to have this machine use that setting. However, when I run Gnome desktop, I get only 800x600, which is pretty ugly on this monitor (it's a really large monitor).
![Screen Screen](/uploads/1/2/6/3/126388950/585059210.png)
I fixed it! But there seems to be a major flaw in the Xorg Wiki, and here's why. I did exactly what Pres told me to do, except instead of adding 'xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1280x1024' I put 'xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1280x1024_60.00' like my 10-monitor.conf had, so the refresh rate was correct, and the default resolution was still 1024x768. So I just erased the '_60.00' off of the '1280x1024_60.00' and it worked fine! So then I erased the xrandr section out of my ~/.xinitrc and re-created my 10-monitor.conf and just took out the section defining the refresh rate and it worked fine.
So here is why I think the Xorg wiki is flawed, instead of having the 10-monitor.conf file look like:
With the refresh rate included in the '#Choose the resolution' line where it is dysfunctional, I think it should look like this:
With the refresh rate taken out, where it actually does it's job.
Now my question is this: Is this a special occurrence for me, or will every user experience this when following the Wiki and using the default 10-monitor.conf file provided and should it be edited?
Last edited by Clarence.e.a (2012-04-27 16:31:04)
Hi,I'm using Red Hat Enterprise 5.1 with Gnome 2.16 as a VMWare server. When I go into screen resolution options, it only gives me 640x480 or 800x600 as options. However, some applications like Logical Volume Management require larger screen resolutions.
I did some google research and people are saying to modify the xorg.conf file, however I cannot locate this file, and I'm not even sure if this will work.
Can someone please point me in the right direction? I have only been using Linux for a couple weeks, so please bear with me.
Thanks,
Jamie