Here's the situation... I have an rhel5 vmware guest that I'd like for X to start @ 800x600 with higher resolution available. From what I've read on the xorg.conf manpage and GDM info the first Mode listed in the Display subsection of the Screen section of xorg.conf should be used.
In my case it is defaulting to the largest mode. Not the behaviour I'm looking for.
xorg.conf:
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "vmware"
VendorName "VMware, Inc"
HorizSync 1.0 - 10000.0
VertRefresh 1.0 - 10000.0
ModeLine "640x480" 100.0 640 700 800 900 480 500 600 700
ModeLine "800x600" 100.0 800 900 1000 1100 600 700 800 900
ModeLine "1024x768" 100.0 1024 1100 1200 1300 768 800 900 1000
ModeLine "1152x864" 100.0 1152 1200 1300 1400 864 900 1000 1100
ModeLine "1280x1024" 100.0 1280 1300 1400 1500 1024 1100 1200 1300
ModeLine "1600x1200" 100.0 1600 1700 1800 1900 1200 1300 1400 1500
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "VMware SVGA"
Driver "vmware"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "VMware SVGA"
Monitor "vmware"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Note that if I remove the Modelines from the Monitor section then the highest available resolution is 800x600. Also not the behaviour I'm looking for.
