Lev,
One way you can check what's going on is to type Control-Alt-F1 (assuming
that X was started from the first virtual terminal). You should see some
info like below. You can get back to X by typing Control-Alt-F7. This
should tell you what modes are available. If what you want is there, then
edit the Screen section (example below) of your XF86Config that applies to
your x server. If your server recognizes the DefaultColorDepth parameter
you can set your default depth that way, otherwise you can use
startx -- -bpp <depth> with whatever depth you want to start with. The
first entry on the mode line will be the default.
-------- x server info --------------------------------------
(**) S3: Monitor ID: "Goldstar1"
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted.
(**) FontPath set to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X
11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/share
font/"
(--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 54, Linear FB @ 0xf0000000
(--) S3: chipset: Trio64V+ rev. 54
(--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio
(--) S3: card type: PCI
(--) S3: Diamond Stealth BIOS found
(--) S3: videoram: 2048k
(--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio64
(--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz
(--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 54.886 MHz)
(--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 95.000 MHz
(**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 50.000
(**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565
(**) S3: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
(--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xF0000000
(--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 800
(--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (736,601) for expanding pixmaps
(--) S3: Using 16 planes of 736x709 at (0,601) aligned 8 as font cache
------------------------ screen section of XF86Config ------------------
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "Diamond"
Monitor "HP"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
# Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
# Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 01:39:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Lev Lvovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: X window resolution extremely low
>
> hello,
>
> I installed slink on my workstation here @ work, and I'm having problems
> with the resolution of X...it's horribly low. I'd say 300x240. I've run
> xf86setup multiple times (with different setups) to no avail. I think
> that hte problem may lie in the fact that it's a non-standard vid card,
> that's embedded on the MB. the motherboard is a SiS Slot1/Socket 370
> model, and the vid card unit is a SiS620 (if I'm correct)...with, what I
> believe is 8MB RAM (anyway for me to check this?)
>
> I'd like to get it up to at least 8x6 @ 32bit, if not 1024x768 (16 or
> 32bit would be fine)
>
> any help would be appreciated!
> -lev
>
