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01-06-2005, 03:11 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Distribution: Debian, Fedora
Posts: 35
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Custom Resolution In X?
I just installed Debian (Sarge) on my laptop, and everything works great. But, I have a widescreen display, and I wanted to know if it was possible to specify a custom resolution for said display -- something like 1280x800. Thanks!
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01-06-2005, 04:39 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: /lost+found
Distribution: Slackware 14.2
Posts: 849
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Edit the "modes" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file...
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600" <--- EDIT
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
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01-06-2005, 04:59 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Distribution: Debian, Fedora
Posts: 35
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Ah, thanks! I knew there was a file like that somewhere, just didn't know where.
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01-06-2005, 05:07 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Distribution: Debian, Fedora
Posts: 35
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Well, I don't have that file. Could it be anywhere else/named something else?
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01-06-2005, 05:13 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Gentoo, GentooX
Posts: 21
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check for a XF86Config file. i just put FC3 on my gfs laptop (dell 700m) and I couldn not get 1280x800 to work. even if it was the only resolution in my xorg file. it would always defualt to 1024x768. trying to change the resolution in gnome didn't even give me the 1280 choice.
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02-07-2005, 06:48 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
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find a program called 855resolution. Compile and put it in /usr/sbin. Then on boot (in the rc.local file) put the following line:
/usr/sbin/855resolution 38 1280 800
That inserts a mode 38h of 1280x800 whcih will then let X find and bring it up.
Good Luck!
RT
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