Resolution Problems

garamatt · 10-14-2003, 09:43 PM

I tried running my computer at a 1600x1200 resolution but my LCD cannot support it and I get no visual output. I was wondering how I could change this back. When I hit CTRL+ALT+F1 I get the login and then the console.

I've been searching all over the web on this topic and everybody says to use Xconfigurator, but when I type "Xconfigurator" into the console it says "command not found"

The only command that spits output is XFree86 -configure; It does not work, however. It says that an Xserver is already running. I know there must be some simple way, I mean after all, its just resolution, but I have no clue were to start.

megaspaz · 10-14-2003, 10:17 PM

what's your distro? you could manually edit the Section "Screen" in your xf86config-4 file.

Code:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier   "Screen0"
        Device       "VESA driver (generic)"
        Monitor      "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth	24

	Subsection "Display"
        	Depth       24
                Modes       "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubsection

EndSection

look at the line "Modes". put the lower resolution first.

garamatt · 10-14-2003, 11:24 PM

Thanks a ton megaspaz. Worked great. As a side note the file that I edited was actually "etc/X11/XF86Config" probably because I use redhat 9.0.