Ever since the behavior of having Xorg guess resolutions has been implemented, I have little to no luck with it. Of at least 6 fedora installs I've done since then it has never guessed a resolution that is comfortable (for lack of a better word) and on some occasions it has required rebooting into runlevel 3 - not exactly a problem, but not very friendly. That ranges from desktop to laptops, native to VM ( Parallels ) and standard to widescreen displays. It has deterred a computer savvy friend of mine from using Fedora because on both attempts, installation went fie, but Xorgs choice of resolution through his LCD into panic in which it turns off (forgot the message it prints) - again, fairly easy for me to fix, but he doesn't know how exactly and so has put it of, busy people. Most annoying to me however is that I must put on my monitor, at least before the gdm/kdm or i get a bloated, unusable resolution, it as simple as Ctrl+Alt+Backspace but it is still quite annoying. I had set several modes, now I have it down to just `Modes "1280x960"` and still that behavior continues, I'm not sure why it doesn't trust my xorg.conf. I have a ViewSonic PF790 display and my Smolt UUID is 'a141fbad-6bc1-419a-a5e7-1c247d90184a' if that helps. I should add that it did guess right on my laptop, but that might be because my laptop only does 1024x768 and 800x600 - limited options Arthur Pemberton -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )