[ale] X Windows

Irv Mullins irvm at ellijay.com
Mon Apr 22 14:09:00 EDT 2002


On Monday 22 April 2002 11:28 am, you wrote:
> bleh.
>
> I am running Mandrake 8.1, with an S3 Virge video card and a AOC Spectrum
> 4VA monitor.
>
> I am trying to get X to run at 1024 X 768 resolution.  I know that the
> hardware can do it, because my old RH 7.0 install did so, and I dual boot
> windoze for my wife, which also manages 1024x768.
>
> I have gone bug-eyed reading man pages about X, but have not been able to
> find out what I need to do to bump my resolution up from 800x600 to
> 1024x768.

I usually just edit etc/x11/XF86Config-4, and add the resolution 
mode(s) I want. First one on the line is default on startup.
Be sure to make the same changes in each Subsection "Display"

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device      "Intel 815"
    Monitor     "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
<etc>

Regards,
Irv

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