Re: X setup, continued.

[Craig Holyoak <craigh@uq.net.au>]

> 1. I actually have a desktop diplayed now. Unfortunately unless I
> manually set the resolution to "640x480", by editing XF86config, only
> the top left corner of the desktop is displayed.
> 
> from XF86config
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Driver   "svga"
>     Device   "NVIDIA Riva TNT2 (generic)
>     Monitor  "Acer77c"
>     DefaultColorDepth 32
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth 16
>         Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
>         ViewPort 0 0
>     Emd Subsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth 24
>         Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
>         ViewPort 0 0
>     End Subsection
>     Subsection "Display"
>         Depth 32
>         Modes "640x480"
>     End Subsection
> End Subsection
> 
> -> note I have manually deleted references to resolutions > 640x480 for
> 32 bit color depth, as mentioned above.

XF86 selects the first mode listed as its default mode - in this case
"640x480". It then will have a virtual screen (of 1280x1024), but only
show you the top left hand corner like this:

    ----------------------------
    |            |             |
    |            |             |
    |  640x480   |             |
    |            |             |
    |            |             |
    --------------             |
    |                          |
    |                          |
    |        1280x1024         |
    |                          |
    |                          |
    ----------------------------

If you don't want that, just reverse the order of the modes in your
config file, ie:

    Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

You can also switch between resolutions using Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus and
Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Minus.

HTH

Craig

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Craig Holyoak
craigh@uq.net.au
http://www.uq.net.au/craigh/