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+#+TITLE: Higher Resolution in Fedora 11 with proprietary NVidia Drivers
+#+DATE: 2009-09-22 23:51
+#+TAGS: fedora nvidia xorg
+
+Ugh... I have been screwing around with this since the beginning of
+time... Or at least since I installed Fedora for the so-manieth
+time. Finally though I found out what I had to do.
+
+Following [[http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752][this guide]], I was able to easily and correctly install the
+drivers. I used to build them myself, but that got me worse results
+then anything.
+
+To sum up, though:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+  # switch to super user (root)
+  su
+
+  # install rpmfusion repository
+  rpm -Uvh \
+      http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
+      http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
+
+  # install the driver (I have an i686 pc, you might need a different architecture, like 64_32 or something similar)
+  yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586
+
+  # reboot to make changed take effect
+  reboot
+#+END_SRC
+
+This only got me a 1024x768 resolution, though... Which pissed me off...
+
+I started looking around the internet for a way to fix it in the
+~xorg.conf~ itself, which I'd done on Fedora 9 before, but didn't
+remember how (the reason I'm writing this right now), but didn't
+actually find what I was looking for.
+
+In the end I found 2 supposed fixes, one added a Modes option to the
+=Display= section of the =Screen= section, and another was to add a
+=DisplaySize= option to the =Monitor= section.
+
+Well, I found out I needed both, so I added =DisplaySize 1280 1024= to
+the =Monitor= section and =Modes "1280x1024"= to the ~Display~ subsection
+of the ~Screen~ section.
+
+Now it's working again, running at 1280x1024 with screen compositing
+(so I can run ~gnome-do~ with docky theme, which I'm trying out for a
+while).