Display setting is not right Fedora 13 limited to 800 x 600

[bad_brain]

hehe, can happen....at my early Linux days I sometime reinstalled multiple times on one day...

but for me it's bedtime now, almost 2am again, so I can help you again tomorrow...if the problem still exists then....good luck until then buddy....

[Floodhound]

Okay man have a great night. I got the new opsystem installed so ill check in.

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[liveuser@localhost ~]$ su -
[root@localhost ~]# which vim
/usr/bin/which: no vim in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

Oh man my old account works ^^ What the heck! Floodhound is back !!

[Lyecdevf]

OMG you are using two accounts. Is not that illegal?

[bad_brain]

hehe, yeah, during the conversion of the old suck-o boards to the v2 ones I found the reason why the old account wasn't working, so I enabled it again... if you want to I can see if I can move all your posts to the 1st account.
so no lyec, it isn't illegal in this case, he simply lost his first account (because of a bug in the old site) years ago and had to make a new one...

--back to Fedora--
damn, I begin to hate Fedora, no vim installed?
do you have internet connectivity? if yes best install it:

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yum install vim

if not you still should be able now (as root user) to save the file through the editor you have used before...

[floodhound2]

B_B Yea merging the data from floodhound2 to floodhound would be cool. Then I would not have to run floodhound2 anymore. I dont want issues so if its not a smooth deal - then forget it.

Back to the issue at hand. I installed the vim, kind of cool how it did it.

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[root@Laptop ~]# which vim
/usr/bin/vim
[root@Laptop ~]# 

That looks like a good thing Whats next?

[bad_brain]

ok, I will do a test run on my home server first, might take a few days...but it should not be a big deal...

alrighty, vim is a little strange to use at the beginning but it's definitely worth to get used to it because it's very powerful and available on pretty any Linux distro.

ok, let's start:

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vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf

you're now in command mode, let's switch to insert mode, simply press i.

now you can copy&paste the content into it, when done go back into command mode by pressing <Esc>.

now write the file and quit vim:

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:wq

notice that : always marks the beginning of a command, w=write and q=quit.
in case you are editing a file that is "read only" vim will complain about that, but you can easily override that and force the execution of your command by adding a ! , like:

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:wq!

when done best reboot and see if it works now...

P.S. here's a nice vim cheat sheet: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[floodhound2]

Something is not working fellas. Every time I edit the file the computer wont boot up. Is there a way to reedit the file so that I dont have to continue re installing the operating system. Like a safe mode?

I am even closer to fixing this issue.

[bad_brain]

hm, do you mean it don't boot at all, or does it boot but you just get a blank screen (which I assume)?
when just the desktop initialization fails try pressing CTRL+Alt+F1, it should drop you into a console where you can edit the file...

P.S. to reboot from console use:

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shutdown -r now

[leetnigga]

Under current circumstances, while you're still configuring X, it might be a good idea to change your runlevel to text mode. That is, change it from 5 (boot to X11) to 3 (boot to multi-user text mode with networking).

Then startx (fail), kill X, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, startx, rinse, repeat.

Set your runlevel in /etc/inittab.

[floodhound2]

Okay I fixed this problem by installing another version of Linux. It kind of sucks because I need to tackle this issue. I think in a few weeks Ill try again.

Thanks for the help people its got me one the road to Linux usage.

[bad_brain]

errors and problems on LInux are just opportunities to learn....

[Lyecdevf]

Okay I fixed this problem by installing another version of Linux.

I told you right in the beginning to do so. If you are a beginner you are better of with ubuntu, mandriva and/or any other beginner friendly linux distro.

[floodhound2]

I hate puppy linux on this laptop but it runs the display great. I installed Ubuntu and I cant get it to work either. Any ideas on how come Puppy linux works but Ubuntu wont not to mention Fedora? Is there another distro like Puppy that I can try.

I have spent a week trying to get the display working and its rather difficult due to me not being able to read much because of the incorrect display settings.

BTW- The wife yells at me each time she fires up the lap top and cant read the screen without using the scroll bars all the time...

[bad_brain]

well, different distros contain different drivers....Debian for example contains no proprietary drivers at all. odd that Ubuntu isn't working out of the box, it contains a lot of proprietary drivers....

I hate to recommend it (because I dislike their politics), but opensuse might be a good candidate:
http://www.opensuse.org/en/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[leetnigga]

You don't have to hop distributions to get your display working. They all use the same software in one form or another. Some may configure your display automatically, and others require some work.

Check the logs of X for Puppy Linux to see what it does right. Then make it work the same on the distribution you want to use. Like bad_brain said, maybe Puppy Linux includes some drivers that Fedora by default does not, though I doubt that. They probably have some automatic X configuration thing going on. See if you can get an xorg.conf or some relevant settings out of it, then use that on Fedora.

Check the logs, or post them here so we can.