On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:55:11PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Problem: | Pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- (numeric) doesn't change my screen resolution | setting. X (with sawmill) always starts out in 1024 x 768 with 16 | bpp (65,000 colors) and I can't figure out how to change it. | | Background: For practice, I just installed X from scratch. I | configured the XF86Config file with xf86config. I've got 1 MB of | video ram on an S3 chipset. I set three resolution settings with | the program: 1024 x 768 at 8 bpp, 1024 x 768 at 16 bpp, and 800 x | 600 at 24 bpp. | | Question: How do I change monitor resolution/color depth in X? To | put it another way, how do I get CTRL-ALT-+/- to work?
Look at the output of X when it starts. For me, some resolutions are removed from the list of available resolutions due to not enough (video?) memory. I have an 8MB SiS card, but it only works at 4MB. It is probable that the other resolutions, while specified in your config file, aren't available when X runs. -D
