Re: Screen resolution

[Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:05:52PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi, Debian users.
> 
> I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be:
> everything appears very big.
> Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution?
> And a way to make it be what it should?
> When I run 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xfree86',
> the resolution displayed is never what I put: 1024×768.
> I have Sarge 3.1 stable.
> 
> I got no help from the debian-laptop mailing list.
> I hope someone can point me to the right way.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rodolfo

xdpyinfo(1) is the traditional X utility for this:

	digbyt@fujitsu:~$ xdpyinfo
	  .
	  .
	screen #0:
	  print screen:    no
->	  dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (369x295 millimeters)
	  resolution:    88x88 dots per inch
	  depths (3):    1, 8, 24
	  root window id:    0x2b
	  depth of root window:    8 planes
	  number of colormaps:    minimum 4, maximum 6
	  default colormap:    0x21
	  default number of colormap cells:    256
	  .
	  .

Regards,
DigbyT
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