On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:52, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:16:55AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Modeline "1280x1024" 135 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 > > My Monitor was already coming up at 1280x1024. > > Once you put in the modeline in XF86Config-4, how do you make X use it?
You restart X. I actually test it (so I can use GUI for email, etc, while testing) by running (as root) something like: xinit -- :1 and cat /root/.xinitrc contains the single line: xterm That way, you can use CTRL-ALT-F8 and CTRL-ALT-F7 to swap between the two X servers, to read more instructions or whatever. To actually run X programs (eg. dpyinfo) in the xterm, you need to export the appropriate DISPLAY, eg: export DISPLAY=:1 Also in your xterm you can run any window manager, eg: metacity & and then exit or CTRL-D or CTRL-BACKSPACE to close the X-term. To fully exit/ restart your regular X (on vt7) once it's all working, logout, then CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to vt1, log in as root, and something like one of the following: /etc/init.d/gdm restart /etc/init.d/gdm stop /etc/init.d/kdm restart etc > I copied and pasted this line into this part of XF86Config-4: > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > HorizSync 31.5 - 80.5 > VertRefresh 60 - 75 > Option "DPMS" > Modeline "1280x1024" 135 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 > [...] First thought: comment out the Horiz... and Vert... refresh lines, and then try testing your x server. > but it comes up at 1280x1024 H80 V75, as it always did without this > modeline. I know in Windows when I run at [EMAIL PROTECTED], I think the > it's the V number which becomes 60 and the H number goes to something > else. On second thoughts, perhaps change the VertRefresh line to "60" instead of "60 - 75" to try to force it to only to 60 vertical refresh. good luck zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
