Lucien D. wrote:
>Ok, making progress. I installed 6.8.2-r1, did X -configure and its
>working, well mostly. Two problems.
>
>well first, it seems like its running at a really high resolution, I
>always ran at 1600 which I thought was the highest this card could do
>(I vaguely remember it being the highest in windows). And at this
>resolution the refresh rate is not right, it seems awfully low. if I
>have a white background I can lines moving on the screen.
>
>
A few things:
My guess is that at a high resolution, the DPI is being calculated at
something like 100x100 or 133x133. While the calculation is technically
correct, it makes fonts look huge. And font configuration in X right
now is still a bit of a mess....so the only sane choice IMO is to run X
at 75x75dpi.
So, I have one small edit for your xorg.conf:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Replace "24" above with 16 if you want 16-bit color, I'm assuming you
don't. This should give you the right resolution, and probably fix your
fonts too. But if the fonts are still huge, add "-dpi 75" to the X
command line. For kdm (3.3), this will be
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers, or kdm 3.4 this will be
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, I don't know for gdm.
If something else seems wrong, post /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and "xdpyinfo |
grep -A 30 ^screen".
-Richard
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