From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: Xorg probes display modes from the highest refresh modes to the lowest for a given resolution. Hence, the highest allowed refresh rate is chosen as the default. My displays, Dell 1703FP, actually prefers a lower 1280x1024@60Hz mode instead of the allowed 1280x1026@75Hz. The bug is that my display actually _REPORTS_ the preferable rate, while Xorg ignores it. For example, read-edid-1.4.1 gets it right. Is Xorg just arrogant? Let me know what more information you need. Logs? Configs? I filed bug 143200 for system-config-display which already explained quite a bit of what's happening. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get Dell 1703FP 2. config it properly fo the recommended 1280x1024@60Hz 3. good luck overriding Xorgś default mode ordering Additional info:
The system-config-display bug is actually bug 134200
This feature needs to be implemented in the upstream project. Please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1669
Thanks, we will track this bug in the upstream bug tracker now. Setting status to "UPSTREAM"