Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> > > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same
> > > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I
> > > just do:
> > >
> > > startx -- :1 -screen <itsidentifier>
> >
> > but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your monitor can
> > handle? i've tried xvidtune, xf86cfg, xf86config,
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, discover read-edid (major
> > lockup, there), xviddetect, XFree86 -configure...
> >
> > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :(
> >
> > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much
> > in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or clock speeds.
> > anybody know of a site somewhere that's got a collection of that
> > kind of info?
>
> CDS-4583 is P/N 955313-003 which is a '14" SVGA monitor'. My
> recollection of Super-VGA is that you could do 1024x768 at some crappy
> refresh rate like 60Hz ... but anything better than that is a long
> shot.
>
I too have a couple of 14" monitors, interlaced ones to boot. I used to
work at 1024x768 with interlace option earlier. X 4.x no longer supports
that.
On such machines running woody, I just installed X 3.3.6 and I could get
1024x768. Of course, with the flicker, etc. headache is assured :-)
Regards,
--
Sridhar M.A.
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-)
-- Larry Wall in <2609@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
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