Re: XF86Setup
Von: Rick Macdonald <rickm@home.com>
>> >In the XF86Config file, in Section "Screen", add a "Virtual" parameter
to
>> >each subsection, and set it to the max res for that subsection.
>
>> I've got a dozen 'Subsection "Display"' entries - under Driver Accel,
>> Driver SVGA, Driver VGA16 and Driver VGA2. In each case there is one
line:
>> Modes "1024*768" "800*600" "640*480"
>> If I split the line or insert eg 'Virtual 800 600' in the middle, I get
an
>> error message when I 'startx'. So can you tell me where I put these
lines?
>
>Actually, I may have misinterpreted your question.
Yes, sorry, perhaps it was not very clear. There are actually two
questions, as explained later.
> You can only have one
>Virtual for each subsection, which you would set to the maximum res:
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1152x864-75c"
> "1024x768-101"
> "800x600-81"
> "640x480-99"
> ViewPort 0 0
> Virtual 1152 864
> EndSubsection
All the 'Modes' lines are identical - <Modes "1024*768" "800*600"
*640*480">
Should I, for example, amend one of them to <Modes "800*600" "640*480"> and
then write <Virtual 800 600>?
That's the first question, which concerns how I see the screen - I'd like to
understand how to control these things but if I can't, frankly, I don't
really mind too much. The second question concerns how java applets are
read:
If an applet wants to present something that should more or less fill the
screen, it can get the screen size from the local system and size the image
accordingly. In M$ Windows, 640*480 means that a 640*480 image would fill
the screen, but it seems that Linux by default returns the size of the
largest screen available, and if the user is actually in a lower screen
resolution he/she either would not realise that they are missing something
or would have to change their resolution to see everything.
Am I talking a load of codswallop?
David
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