On Dec 31, 2007 12:25 AM, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote: > Were you able to select your monitor from the list or are you choosing > some kind of generic monitor? > > Move your existing xorg.conf out of the way before running > system-config-display so that it's forced to start from scratch. It > probably got the wrong HorizSync and VertRefresh values. > > If that doesn't work you'll need to find a manual or other description > of your monitor and set HorizSync and VertRefresh and possibly a > couple of Modeline entries by hand. > yes. i removed xorg.conf to generate it from scratch. i selected generic 1024x768 monitor. still cant get 1024x768 to work. on some other distro and livecd i can even get 1280x1024. 800x600 works perfect. but it's just too low for me.