On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:23 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > If I use "system-config-display" or "system-config-display --reconfig" > although I get a message that I need to log out of GNOME, to have the > new file written, for new Display Resolution, logging out or > restarting the box does not result in the new settings for the Display > taking hold. Sometimes, the number of colors is updated, but *never* I always "telinit 3", go to a VC as root (<CTL>-<ALT>-<F1>) and run system-config-display (w/o --reconfig) after saving a copy of xorg.conf. Then "telinit 5" and IWFM. > the Resolution. Below is my xorg.conf file. What do I need to include > in xorg.conf for the resolution to be 1280 x 1024 instead of the > current 1600 x 1200? Display is a Dell M991 and the Video Card is > shown as Nvidia NV11 (GeForce2 MX/MX400). CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) fully > updated. TIA! Edit the "modes" line below and cut out the stuff you don't want. Also keep in mind that the modes line applies only to the subsection which contains it. You need to duplicate in each subsection. > > # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "single head configuration" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nv" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > DefaultDepth 16 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 16 > Modes "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" > "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x800" "1152x864" > "1152x864" "1152x768" "1152x768" "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" > "800x600" "640x480" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill