On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:05:52PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi, Debian users.
>
> I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be:
> everything appears very big.
> Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution?
> And a way to make it be what it should?
> When I run 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xfree86',
> the resolution displayed is never what I put: 1024?768.
> I have Sarge 3.1 stable.
>
> I got no help from the debian-laptop mailing list.
> I hope someone can point me to the right way.
>
> Thanks,
> Rodolfo
xdpyinfo(1) is the traditional X utility for this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xdpyinfo
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screen #0:
print screen: no
-> dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (369x295 millimeters)
resolution: 88x88 dots per inch
depths (3): 1, 8, 24
root window id: 0x2b
depth of root window: 8 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 4, maximum 6
default colormap: 0x21
default number of colormap cells: 256
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Regards,
DigbyT
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