A Newbie's Guide To RandR 1.2

[CrystalCowboy]

jidanni: Take a look around in your BIOS and see if something there is determining the LVDS resolution.

Although if you 1024x768 pixels, why would you want to run at reduced resolution?

[greg]

$ xrandr --fb 800x600
xrandr: specified screen 800x600 not large enough for output LVDS (1024x768+0+0)
does that mean that no matter even if one day I am told what to put in
xorg.conf, I will never be able to get less that 1024x768?

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 800x600