[Novalug] how to increase the resolution of my LCD screen when it's not done automagically

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Nino Pereira wrote:

> thanks to all the advice of the list, I hit upon an xorg.conf
> file that works. To the one that came with Ubuntu 8.10 I added
> the lines with an -->. This is what it looks like now:
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
>         Device          "Configured Video Device"
> -->        SubSection      "Display"
> -->          Depth         24
> -->          Modes         "1680x1050" "1152x864" "800x600"
> -->        EndSubSection
> EndSection

 	Just to corroborate, that subsection did still show when 
I got my 1680x1050 with Fedora, thank God, and most of the 
fighting I did with it (at least to any effect) was there. Hals- 
und Beinbruch!

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