Thanks guys - I was mistaking 1024x768 for 88x600...And changing the bit depth down to 16 allowed 166x1200 as somoene tirelssly pointed out.
Maybe I'm rusty or my brain's atrophied - never used to take me a day to get this stuff sorted - coudln't have done it without this list and tghe pateince of those who responded..
Sincerest thanks. I'll crawl back under my stone now.... Martin Martin Waller wrote:
duh!My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot work out what package its in.Also, in the debian reference manual, at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xsrvr, it refers to xserver-common-v3 (I think I need this as I have an old matrox card)- I can find no such package in etch - is the ref manual out of date or something? Surely not?Thanks for any help, Martin