I’ve recently installed Fedora Core 5 on my machine but I’ve been having trouble getting the screen resolution above 800 x 600. I’ve tried installing ATI’s drivers but those didn’t make a difference. I then tried following the steps at Fedora Core 5 Installation Notes but those didn’t work so I removed them. What happens with the second set of drivers is that my monitor starts acting like it isn’t plugged into my tower.
I’m not so much concerned with 3D acceleration (though it would be nice) as I am with getting a higher resolution.
Tech Specs
OS: Fedora Core 5
Video Card: ASUS ATI X800 256 MB
Processor: AMD64 3500
RAM: 1 GB
xorg.conf:
Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “single head configuration”
Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0
InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
EndSection
Section “Files”
Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
By default, a font server independent of the X server is
used to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “dbe”
Load “extmod”
Load “fbdevhw”
Load “glx”
Load “record”
Load “freetype”
Load “type1”
Load “dri”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
Option “Xleds” “1 2 3”
To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
Option “XkbDisable”
To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
keyboard, you will probably want to use:
Option “XkbModel” “pc102”
If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
Option “XkbModel” “microsoft”
Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
Option “XkbLayout” “de”
or:
Option “XkbLayout” “de”
Option “XkbVariant” “nodeadkeys”
If you’d like to switch the positions of your capslock and
control keys, use:
Option “XkbOptions” “ctrl:swapcaps”
Or if you just want both to be control, use:
Option “XkbOptions” “ctrl:nocaps”
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Mouse0”
Driver “mouse”
Option “Protocol” “IMPS/2”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “yes”
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “Monitor Vendor”
ModelName “Gateway EV700”
DisplaySize 320 240
Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.0 - 69.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 110.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0”
Driver “radeon”
VendorName “Videocard vendor”
BoardName “ATI Technologies Inc R430 [Radeon X800 (PCIE)]”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Videocard0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection “Display”
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes “1024x768” “800x600” “640x480”
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section “DRI”
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection