Re: XF86Setup
I'm trying to set up X to give me several screen sizes which don't require
panning to see them all, and I've had a lot of welcome help, among which:
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.
After further help from you, I now understand how to do it and I can see how
this works.
Von: Rick Macdonald <rickm@home.com>
> As far as I can tell, for any given pixel depth (8, 16, 24) you can
>only have one subsection, and for each of these you only have one Virtual,
>set to the largest size in the subsection.
Well, no error is reported when I write several subsections for the same
depth. It just takes the first and ignores the rest. And writing several
'Virtual' lines in the same subsection wouldn't seem to make much sense,
anyway.
Von: Andrei Ivanov <c680789@showme.missouri.edu>
>This is called a virtual desktop. When you are configuring the order of
>modes, it asks you whether you want virtual desktop or not. Since you
>don't want it, say No. I can't stand it either...but I use 3 out of 4
>desktop screens.
I've run XF86Setup a dozen times in the last day or two, but I wasn't aware
of being invited to do anything I would call 'configuring the order of
modes'. Certainly, nobody asked me if if I wanted virtual desktop. But
you've got three desktop screens running, which gives me hope.
A fundamental problem I seem to have is that when I run startx it only looks
at the VGA16 section and only at the 'depth 4' subsection. (That's the only
subsection XF86Setup writes in XF86Config, and when I added an 8-bit
subsection with a different screen size it was ignored.) If I comment it
out, it returns an error and refuses to start. I have an API Mach64 card
which is detected together with chip, ramdac etc with no complaint, and
XF86Setup writes all the details in XF86Config. So does anyone know why I'm
stuck with a 16-colour one-size display? You've all been very patient up to
now. Please don't give up on me.
David
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