Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:22:03PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks.
This machine needs to have the exact same "look and feel" as the other
Solaris boxes. It will be used for a process control system, and it would
confuse the operators if things looked different on this one.
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