stephan wrote: > I have just almost successfully installed X on my laptop. My last > problem is this: > I have a 1024x768 screen, yet I can only seem to get it to come up as > 320x200. > So basically there is a small window in the middle of my screen that > displays X, > and the graphics are rather large (it is running at 8bpp as opposed to > 16). I'm really > not sure where to go with this. I've tried xvidtune but that gets a > floating point exception, > xf86config gives me these results, and XF86Setup seems to do more damage > than good > (I'm sorry that isn't very specific, but I've just fought it four or > five times in a row and I > didn't right down the error message these last two times). I had X > running fine with redhat > and suse, so I know it is possible, I'm just not quite sure how. > > Sony vaio N505VE > neomagic card > SVGA server > 1024x768 screen, should be at 16bpp
ctrl-alt-<plius sign on numeric keypad> swaps between the resolutions you have defined. I'm not sure how you press the + sign on a numeric keypad using a notebook. You can try editing you /etc/X11/XF86Config file so that only the 1024x768 modes used. ie. comment out the orginal Modes line #Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" Modes "1024x768" You could try changing the order if you wish to use the other modes. Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" There is also a default mode setting I think. Or was that a default depth setting ? Check the manual pages with "man XF86Config". Brendan Simon.
