[SOLVED] Screen Resolution

[heyyeh]

I'm using Fedora 8 Linux

I'm wondering how to allow my screen resolution.

I installed a driver for the Nvidia GeForce MX 100/200- the latest one.
I'm wondering how to make it possible to get a resolution bigger than 800x600 even though that's all it shows on the dialog.

I can change it if I knew how.

Any ideas?

[devils casper]

Have you installed Nvidia driver?
Execute this

su -
rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

yum -y install kmod-nvidia
init 3
nvidia-config-display enable

[heyyeh]

Okay, so I installed it and used the videocard's configuration to resolve this issue, but no matter what:

It returns to 640x480 everytime I reload my user.

[devils casper]

Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file here.

[heyyeh]

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder57) Wed Jul 2 12:31:37 PDT 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "INZ C170"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce2 MX 100/200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
Option "metamodes" "1024x768 +0+0; 1024x768_75 +

Okay, that's the contents of my config file.
Thus, for some reason everytime I reload my X server.

[devils casper]

You haven't posted all the contents of xorg.conf file.

It returns to 640x480 everytime I reload my user.

What about other root user? Does resolution change on switching users?

[heyyeh]

Oops...My bad.
Here's the rest of my file:

SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

EDIT: By the way, I tried to use the driver config program but it resets as I restart my X server.
Plus, the display wouldn't let me use anything higher for a while.