#+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!)