Add old blog post "Low Resolution in Fedora 11 with Nvidia drivers"

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+#+TITLE: Low Resolution in Fedora 11 with Nvidia drivers
+#+DATE: 2009-08-19 8:11
+#+TAGS display fedora nvidia
+
+*Finally*, after hours of looking and working I have finally again found
+how to set the resolution to what I need (have 1280x1024, had
+640x480). I've had trouble with my resolution in Fedora before, but I
+don't ever remember it being this much of a pain, but then again I
+don't remember much about it at all, wish I'd remembered how I fixed
+it.
+
+So to help me remember and perhaps even help someone else work around
+it, here's how I finally got it working.
+
+I'm now using the Nouveau driver with a generic LCD Panel 1280x1024. I
+tried setting this in ~system-config-display~ many times, but it just
+wouldn't accept my monitor.
+
+So in the end I looked at ~system-config-display --help~ and noticed
+~--reconfigure~ , which doesn't base the new configuration file on an
+old one.
+
+Using this option and setting my driver to ~nv~ and my monitor to
+generic 1280x1024 and then
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  su -c "init 3"
+  # [log in]
+  su -c "init 5"
+#+END_SRC
+
+got me the right resolution again. However the ~nv~ driver is just a
+little too basic, so I thought I'd try the same thing with the
+proprietary driver, so I did everything exactly as before, only I used
+the driver ~nvidia~ instead of ~nv~.
+
+Now again X wouldn't start at all, so I ran ~livna-config-display -a~ to
+get it to my old low-res configuration, and then I tried it a third
+time, this time using the ~nouveau~ driver (which I've heard is better
+then ~nv~) and that worked!
+
+I know that supposedly you're also able to use ~xorg.conf~ to set
+certain Modes values for your display, but this didn't do anything for
+me at all in fedora, did help me in ubuntu, but then there I got the
+weirdest resolution.
+
+*finally* I can look at a normal screen again.
+
+Now I should get going to work, I'm gonna be really late (this really
+bugged me!)