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I just bought a new monitor and reinstalled redhat 7.0 on my system. Here's my problem. The picture is big and beautiful, but the all the windows and text, icons, etc. are tiny. Is there any way to make everything bigger again?
You need to edit the "screen section" it looks like this,
Code:
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Edit the "modes" resolutions are read from left to right.
It looks like your system is now running 1600x1200.
If you'd like to change it before edition make a backup copy!
# The svga server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "RIVA TNT2"
Monitor "VSC8e06"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Thanks for your help. I got it working. I had already done what you suggested in /etc/X11/XF86Config butt that wasn't working. So I fixed that file to its' original state and I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and now everything is working properly. I decided to go with "800x600" since that is the easiest on my eyes. I presume this is okay, since everything I read has said not to go too big. If I've screwed anything up please let me know. Otherwise, thanks for everyone's help.
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