Re: Only 800x600

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jacob Friis Larsen wrote:

> Kent West wrote:
>
> > If these suggestions don't get you much farther, you'll probably want to
> > post some details about your system (video card, amount of RAM on the
> > video card, which version of Debian, which version of X, any WWarnings
> > or EErrors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, etc).
>
>
> Sorry, I'm not yet an advanced Linux desktop user. This is what I found:
>
> Installed: Debian testing
> Linux version 2.4.26-1-686 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 3.3.3 
> (Debian 20040401)) #1 Sat May 1 18:04:05 EST 2004
>
> lspci:
> VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 05)
>
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> <snip>
> SetClientVersion: 0 7
> (II) Open APM successful
> (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xf2000000,0x2000000)
> (II) MGA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 
> 0x0000
> (==) MGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 32 depth: 24

I don't see any indication of how much video RAM you have; I think the 
first thing I'd do is drop my color depth from 24 to 16; you can do this 
by running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86".

--
Kent