RE: screen blows up!
Running xvidtune is kind of difficult because I can't get to the buttons
because of the bloated screen. Any more suggestions? --Hans
At 08:30 AM 11/14/01 -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
>|-----Original Message-----
>|From: Hans Fong [mailto:hansfong@yahoo.com]
>|Sent: Wednesday, 14 November, 2001 05:37 AM
>|To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>|Subject: screen blows up!
>|
>|
>|Okay, it's not that bad, it's only the screen size.
>|I'm trying to save an old Compay 75 MHz Pentium for
>|Linux box at work. Installed Potato, X ran fine.
>|Upgraded to Woody (testing), ran xf86config, X came
>|up, but only left-lower quarter of the screen. I wear
>|glasses already, so no need for a blown-up desktop.
>|Any idea's on how to fix this?
>|
>|I tried a Trident and Tseng ET3000 and both have the
>|same problem.
>|
>|Please CC as I'm at work. Thanks.
>|
>|Hans
>
>Greetings,
> I had a similar problem. I ran xvidtune to get it to look right. Once I
>had the settings properly record, then I modified my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
>to include and use a custom mode:
>
>Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Compaq QVision 172"
> HorizSync 31.5-82
> VertRefresh 50-110
> Option "DPMS"
> Mode "Good_1024x768"
> DotClock 94.50
> HTimings 1024 1072 1168 1376
> VTimings 768 769 772 860
> Flags "+hsync" "+vsync"
> EndMode
>EndSection
>
>Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "Diamond SpeedStar A200"
> Monitor "Compaq QVision 172"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "Good_1024x768"
> EndSubSection
>EndSection
>
>Now it works fine!
>
>HTH,
>
>Brooks
>
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