Re: Need help with resolution
*-Ken Archer <karcher@idworld.net>
|
| I currently have SuSE 5.2, Red Hat 5.1, Slackware 3.4 and Debian 2.0 on
| seperate partitions on a 10 gig hd. As you can tell, I am constantly looking
| for something better. From what I heard, I thought it might be Debian, but I
| can't even get the resolution set right on it. I have it set a 1024x768 on my
| other distributions, but using xf86config the same way with Debian, I get
| 640x480 with a virtual resolution of 800x600. It evidently only sees 256k of
| videoram when I have 2 meg. What's different about Debian? From what I read
| on this mailing list, one of its features is easy of installation. Maybe I'm
| just expecting too much.
I don't know why this happens, but try putting
VideoRam: 2048
it the Device section in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
Have you tried using XF86Setup instead of xf86config?
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