On 2009-09-24_22:49:04, Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/9/24 Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net>: > > I just purchased a small LCD monitor. It is 16:9 format and 1366x768. > > I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > and that program set up the driver for 1024x768, so naturely the letters > > and graphics were stretched out horizontally. 1366x768 is not an option > > offered by Gnome preferences screen-resolution. What is the Debian way > > to deal with this? What should I read? > > You might like to look into configuring yourself a modeline to tell > the xserver what the hardware is capable of if it's not automatically > detected. > > Adrian
Yes. That is what I want to do. Where are the current modelines stored? Somewhere in /etc I suppose, but there is a lot of stuff in /etc that is automatically overwritten. I'd like to put my mode line in a place that is considered authoritative by the Debian/GNU/Xwindows/Linux system. And I'd like to use correct syntax for my modelines to that they are properly understood by whatever is designed to read modelines. I wouldn't mind reading some documents that explain what is going on, but I doubt that I will remember whatever I might learn, especially if it doesn't actually lead to my successfully configuring this monitor. Thanks for the clue that what I need is 'a modeline'. Words matter, especially if you can't remember the ones that are used in the index to life. I'll go Google modeline. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
