[ale] FC3/Xorg Monitor question

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I have an FC3 system -- long overdue for upgrade, I know -- on which I 
> want use a Samsung LCD monitor with a native resolution of 1440x900. This 
> does not seem to be one of the choices in my configuration, or at least 
> not from the GUI to control display settings: even selecting the monitor 
> as "Generic LCD 1440x900" does not offer that resolution.
> 
> How can I configure my 'Xorg' X-Windows to support the monitor's native 
> 1440x900 resolution?
> 
> TIA.

you might try
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg


when you select that resolution, do you get any errors in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log ??

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