Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?
stan <stanb@awod.com> writes:
> OK I'm partway here, but I'm still having troubles. I ran videogen and got
> a modeline as close to 1152x900 as it would generate
>
> Modeline "1152x896" 94.21 1152 1184 1440 1472 896 898 941 943
>
> I then put this line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Here is the XF86Config-4
> file:
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultColorDepth 16
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> Then I restarted teh X server. Unfortunately it did not use the new
> modeline.
Right; you'd need to include that mode in the Modes line for the
relevant bit depth.
I'm not entirely clear why you're doing this, though. You had
originally said you wanted the new machine to essentially be an X
terminal for an extant Solaris machine. You can just do that with any
X server, regardless of platform, resolution, or bit depth (hence my
suggestion earlier that you try to use a higher bit depth if your card
will support it). You don't need to exactly match the display the
remote machine has; the remote machine doesn't even need to have a
display, and this still works fine.
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