well it wont detect my vga driver, damnit…?

so you need a better driver to see the better res..
yeah thats the issue
funny how suse and kubuntu both got me higher resolutions than fedora
sigh

i took the entire computer apart
james_: tighter probe setup .. possibly
searched the motherboard for a model number

nothing

the video card is integrated

Divine07: do: lspci
so there's no way to tell what's in there

already tried

generic output
lshw
cmd not found

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18M [GeForce4 448 Go] (rev a2)
/sbin/lspcs
/sbin/lspci
OMG

it gives you all that
Divine07: install it ?

i am, lol

by the way, thankyou for the help

i've been working on this for hours