MisterWebNet

Changed the Operating System (OS) on the laptop again (Advent 9415 with an SIS graphics card - nevery buying anything with SIS again if they won't support linux). Its great to have a spare laptop to cycle through the various Linux distro's seeing what each is up to. Anyway, the usual problem with the SIS graphics card presented itself. Having installed Fedora 13 I was met with the ugly 800x600 screen resolution with no option to change it.

Again, like the problem with Ubuntu, the solution is to edit the xorg.conf file. It's probably this doesn't exist so you'll have to create one - as a root user.

su root

gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If you are presented with a blank file, you can simply insert the below into it. If your file is already full of settings, look for the sections below and add in any lines missing.

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "Monitor0"
HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Videocard0"
Monitor  "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth     24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     24
Modes    "1024x768" "854x480" "800x600" "800x600" "800x480" "800x480" "720x576" "720x576" "720x480" "720x480" "640x480" "640x480" "640x400" "640x400" "512x384" "512x384" "400x300" "400x300" "320x240" "320x240" "320x200" "320x200"
EndSubSection
EndSection