Screen resultion 800x600
 

Hi.
Just installed debian (Sarge, Kernel 2.6), and I have the following problem:
My maximum screen resolution is 800x600, which is way too low.
I have a GeForce 4 Ti4400 with 128 ram.
how can I fix this?

Thanks.

you have to manually edit the XF86Config-4 file at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 . When you see resolution just add "1024x768" or whatever other value you want.

If that doesn't work, run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Set it properly and in monitor section, choose advance setup and set your horizontal and vertical values manually according to your monitor spec.

i would start with Underhill's suggestion, is the correct way and will create a new Config-4 file.

no luck
 

no I have two new problems:
1. I am having a virtual desktop larger than the resulution of the screen.
2. when I access peripherials->display, KDE crashes on me.
I would prefer the 800x600 problem I had before.. :)

help!

okay, fixed it, sort of.
 

what happened is that reconfugre would not touch the XFree configuration file because I changed it.
now its better - I got 1024x768, but I would like to have 1280x1024 (which appears in XF86Config-4) :

//...
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
//...


anyone?

Checking lines that begin with (WW) or (EE) in /var/log/XFree86.0.log might give you a clue why you don't get higher resolutions.

There are some warning:
(WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)

but I dont think they are related.

any other pointers?

#dpkg.reconfigure xserver-xfree86

just choose "Advanced"

will allow you to choose all the resolutions your little heart desires, say 'yes' to a new config-4 file.

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