Re: laptop screen size
stephan wrote:
> I have just almost successfully installed X on my laptop. My last
> problem is this:
> I have a 1024x768 screen, yet I can only seem to get it to come up as
> 320x200.
> So basically there is a small window in the middle of my screen that
> displays X,
> and the graphics are rather large (it is running at 8bpp as opposed to
> 16). I'm really
> not sure where to go with this. I've tried xvidtune but that gets a
> floating point exception,
> xf86config gives me these results, and XF86Setup seems to do more damage
> than good
> (I'm sorry that isn't very specific, but I've just fought it four or
> five times in a row and I
> didn't right down the error message these last two times). I had X
> running fine with redhat
> and suse, so I know it is possible, I'm just not quite sure how.
>
> Sony vaio N505VE
> neomagic card
> SVGA server
> 1024x768 screen, should be at 16bpp
ctrl-alt-<plius sign on numeric keypad> swaps between the resolutions you have
defined.
I'm not sure how you press the + sign on a numeric keypad using a notebook.
You can try editing you /etc/X11/XF86Config file so that only the 1024x768 modes
used. ie. comment out the orginal Modes line
#Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
Modes "1024x768"
You could try changing the order if you wish to use the other modes.
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
There is also a default mode setting I think. Or was that a default depth
setting ?
Check the manual pages with "man XF86Config".
Brendan Simon.
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