On Saturday 29 April 2006 18:05, 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
Get out the manual/search online for the specifications for the horizontal and vertical refresh rates for the screen/monitor. Then use advanced when reconfiguring and put in the values when asked, Debian always sets up the refresh rates too low which stops you from getting the higher resolutions. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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