desktop resolutions and such
 

Right, I've got the "desktop scrolls because the resolution is too high" problem that I'm sure most of you have seen. However, I've tried everything to fix it - i've run xf86config at least five times, made the only resolution 1024x768 (by manually editing XF86Config), turned off virtual desktops, everything! This is what my XF86Config says:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "Radeon"
Monitor "Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection


I don't see why my desktop resolution is still 1280x1024, and if I use Ctrl+Alt+Plus to change it, it goes to 800x600 and forces me to scroll around... Help! I'm using Debian (sarge) with KDM and i've done all the apt-get updating and such.

hrm.
 

I dunno if this helps, but one time I had the same problem after I first installed slackware 10.

AS it turns out, the xorg.conf file I was editing wasn't being used by X11 for some reason. When I deleted all of the others ones out of /etc/x11/ , it started using the xorg.conf file I wanted it to.

Make sure it's using the right file.

I think you can specify it with a command option.

the correct configuration file is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (the "4" is important !)

try a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" as root, so you can configure your X server with debconf

good luck ;)

OMG ttottoro, I love you... in a totally platonic, brotherly, distance-hampered way... now I can use Konqueror without going blind! Yay!

And also, I used debconf to reconfigure my X server, then realized that it set my vertical refresh rate to 50-160, which was why I got an "Out of Sync Range" on my monitor... that was kinda odd. But now I'm back in 1024x768 mode, so yay!