# Fedora screen resolution
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 25, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284 "2004-05-25T14:29:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@imagined](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imagined)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284/1 "2004-05-25T14:29:43Z")
I just installed Fedora Core yesterday. But my screen resolution is VERY VERY low. I want to higher the resolution but it won’t do it. I restart and restart and still the same!
Please help :hair:
Leo
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284/2 "2004-05-25T23:17:02Z")
What type of video card do you have? If you have an NVIDIA card, you can download the linux driver for it off Nvidia’s website (although the default driver included with fedora should at least let you change resolution).
[http://www.nvidia.com](http://www.nvidia.com)
NOTE: If you decide to upgrade to FC2, you will have to go recompile your kernel to get the Nvidia driver to work…it’s well worth your trouble though.
[http://www.linuxquestions.org](http://www.linuxquestions.org) --\> check these guys out too 🙂
-teet
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284/3 "2004-05-26T15:34:20Z")
> [@teet](#):
>
> What type of video card do you have? If you have an NVIDIA card, you can download the linux driver for it off Nvidia’s website (although the default driver included with fedora should at least let you change resolution).
>
> [http://www.nvidia.com](http://www.nvidia.com)
>
> NOTE: If you decide to upgrade to FC2, you will have to go recompile your kernel to get the Nvidia driver to work…it’s well worth your trouble though.
>
> [http://www.linuxquestions.org](http://www.linuxquestions.org) –\> check these guys out too 🙂
>
> -teet
nVidia will probably provide a new driver in a while (or redhat will release a kernel upgrade)… having such a popular distro (especially one which is targeted to newbies) not work out-of-the-box without a kernel recompile with your drivers is not good.
it’s not due to the 2.6 kernel though. The nVidia drivers work fine with the 2.6 kernel - Red Hat turned an option on that causes the nVidia drivers to fail.
There are ATI drivers too - they’re provided in RPM form, so you shouldn’t have to do any tweaking 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284/4 "2004-05-26T18:54:09Z")
I have a NVIDIA MX, and it runs great on my Fedora Core.
But I guess the driver is what could be the problem…
I’m a UNIX newbie too 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284/5 "2004-05-26T19:10:51Z")
> [@grinch](#):
>
> I have a NVIDIA MX, and it runs great on my Fedora Core.
> But I guess the driver is what could be the problem…
>
> I’m a UNIX newbie too 😛
Fedora is a linux distro. Very different than Unix. (Just to clarify!)
But yeah check [Linuxquestions.org](http://Linuxquestions.org).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284/6 "2004-05-26T20:47:20Z")
I know that FC is a linux distro, but isn’t linux powered off of the same UNIX engine?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284/7 "2004-05-26T21:01:02Z")
Nope. Unix is proprietary code. Even the philosophy behind the OS’s is a lot different. You can see the same software running on either but they’ve been ported to that particular OS.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fedora-screen-resolution/111284/8 "2004-05-26T21:16:21Z")
Oh ok!
Thanks for that clear up Marble 😉