On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:25 PM, <r...@dwf.com> wrote: > > For reasons that I don't need to go into here, I keep copies of > Fedora F6, F11, and F14 on different partitions of a disk. I will > be adding F16 to this collection in the next few weeks. > > But, in looking at my F14 installation, I note an X11 problem. > Im not sure who is maintaining the Feodra X11 these days > so Ill ask the question here. > > My xorg.conf is the same for all of these installations, and the > mode line reads > > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > and older X11s chooses the "1280x1024" resolution as my default. > > In F14 it chooses "1024x768" which screws up the screen organization > for testing software. > > Now some quick experiments show that if I connect the monitor > directly to the computer (rather than thru the kvm), this works > fine with F14. So it is the kvm that is causing the problem. But the > kvm is too dumb to program in any other manner, so the question > is, is there a way to FORCE F14 to use the mode I want, or to SET > whatever variable it is using to determine that the higher resolution > is acceptable? > > I have tried a few things (like only one thing on the Modes line) with > no success, so I'm looking for someone who knows more about the > internals of X11 than I do. >
Take a look at the the manufacturer's specs of your KVM to see what resolutions it supports.
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