From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040505 Description of problem: Cannot change the resolution from the intial 640x480 using system-config-display. Initially, system-config-display only displays two resolution choices: 640x480 800x600 After switching to the Hardware tab and reselecting the monitor (ViewSonic P815) and card (NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)), a complete list of resolutions appears in the Settings tab. Selecting any on these resolutions and then logging out has no effect. Hardware: Dell Dimension 8200 Viewsonic P815 NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.7.0-0.5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Invoke system-config-display 2. Attempt to change resolution 3. Logout Actual Results: The resolution was still 640x480. Expected Results: The resolution should have changed. Additional info: Output from system-config-display: [root@fed1 mark]# system-config-display * ddcprobe returned bogus values: ID: None Name: None HorizSync: None VertSync: None Trying with card: NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)
Created attachment 100093 [details] The generated /etc/X11/xorg.conf file The generated conf file after selecting 1280x1024 with millions of colors.
this seems to be a common problem with core 2 test 3. i'm getting the same thing on my dell inspiron 8200 lapotop with a geforce 4 go.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120950 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.