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Re: setting & switching screen densities



Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> 
> > stealth vram (#124), which is an S3.  I've set it for 432 under 8 bits,
> > and 32 under 16 (1mb vram).  But it seems to insist that the higher
> > density modes don't exist.  It's startup messages (the ones that are
> > left) annnouce 
> > 
> > (--) there is no mode definition mamed "1024x768"
> > (--) removing mode "1024X768": from list of valid modes"
> > 
> > then again for 800x600.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?

Look: "1024x768" is not the same as "1024X768".

> easiest way is to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file.  Mine looks like:

Better: edit XF86Config and specify a default color depth.


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