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Wednesday, 1 October 2014

I need to swap monitors as the backlight in my old Dell monitor grows 
dim. I have a Viewsonic vx2035WM that Fedora can never get the 
resolution right for. I've gone through the following process using 
information I found on Google.

[root@box7 bobg]# cvt 1680 1050
# 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz
Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 
1089 -hsync +vsync

[root@box7 bobg]# xrandr --newmode "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 
1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync
[root@box7 bobg]# xrandr --addmode VGA1 1680x1050_60.00
[root@box7 bobg]# xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050_60.00

Which produces a working Modeline and display. Now it appears I need a 
working xorg.conf display section so it will survive rebooting.

When I do, again from Google:

Xorg :1 -configure

The display crashes and says "Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen"

Does anyone have an example of a working config file that I can use?

Bob

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