On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 06:54:46PM +0100, Doofus wrote: > Chance Platt wrote: > > >On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:19 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >> > >>I am using Sarge and my monitor is not giving better resoultion than > >>640x480. I have tried all the suggestions given in the on various > >>websites and wikis in this regard, but none of them worked. I have an > >>IBM E50 monitor and an Intel 845 graphics board.
> >As root: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > > >This re-prompts you the X server setup you saw when installing. You'll > >be able to pick which resolutions you want. I always just select one > >resolution -- that way there's no guessing as to what resolution will > >come up when X starts. > > > >chance > > You shouldn't have to guess. > > Section "Screen", subsections "Display" in your /etc/X11XF86Config-4 > file each contain a line "Modes" listing all your resolutions for each > colour depth. The first entry in these lines will be the resolution that > comes up by default. > > With a CRT monitor it can be useful to have a few resolutions available. > > You can also set the default colour depth in the top level part of > "Screen" so you don't have to specify it on the command line, eg: > > DefaultDepth 24 > > Finally, it's well worth finding the actual nuber of pixels per inch for > your monitor and also specifying this in the same section, eg: > > Option "DPI" "117 x 117" I also use videogen to produce Modelines for my Intel845G videocard. -- Regards, Csányi Paul http://www.ektf.hu/~Csanyi.Pal (Up to now, it is in Hungarian only.) http://csanyipal.info/moodle <<<--- Moodle - Course Management System http://csanyipal.info:81 <<<--- sTeam - Cooperative Learning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
