[ale] xorg.conf

Randy Ramsdell rramsdell at adelphia.net
Wed Mar 30 14:19:12 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:39 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I've got my Xorg built and running but I can't seem to figure out how to
> get the resolution to work at 1024x768.
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Files"
>         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "dri"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "xtrap"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "freetype"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"DefaultDepth     24
> EndSection
>  
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Device"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
>         #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
>         #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
>         #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "nv"
>         VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>         BoardName   "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra]"
>         BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
> EndSection
>  
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Card0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 #Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     16
>                 Modes     "1280x1024"   
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> This was generated by Xorg -config
> 
> Can someone tell me what is wrong?
2 things:

1. It might be nice after the "Monitor" line to define "DefaultDepth
16".

2. In the modes line above change "1280x1024" to "1024x768" 
	or just add the "1024x768" to the same line, but make sure is 
	the first entry for "Modes"

rcr



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