On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 13:20, Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
I've been trying to move from Centos 7 to fedora. My monitor is 1440x900, but fedora only believes it's 640x480. Grrrr. xrandr has not helped. I've been trying to write X configuration files to tell fedora 1440x900, but no joy. Is there a way to get X to tell me its current beliefs, very preferably in configuration file format?
1. What kind of video card is this? 2.How is the video connected to the monitor? (DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort/VGA) 3. What kind of monitor is it? 4. What version of Fedora and is Fedora trying to do X or Wayland?
Sometimes if Fedora can only go to generic 640x480 the video card is no longer 'supported' by the various X11 drivers.. or the data that the monitor is returning to say what it can support is coming back as 640x480. Finally this may do better on a fedora mailing list (but they will ask the same questions). For a CentOS viewpoint I would ask if it happens if you run CentOS-8 (try via a live cd) on the box. If it does happen, then it is a problem between Fedora-18 and Fedora-28. If it doesn't happen then it is a problem between Fedora 28 and the version of Fedora you are trying.
According to the log file on Centos, everything was defaulted or probed.
It contains no numbers. My guess is that fedora has different defaults and they are wrong for me.
I've had problems like this before, so I'm unwilling to install until I know I can run a live version. That makes life clunky. I have to boot to non-graphics, do my editing and change the runlevel.
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