Screen Resolution

darkervisions · 12-01-2005, 08:40 PM

I still only have two options (800x600 and 640x480) 800x600 hurts my eyes. lol

lll_302_lll · 12-01-2005, 08:49 PM

12

Comonnnnnnnn how come are you running behind X.org

simeply run a command on terminal either you are in text mode or graphical

# system-config-display

here you can set desired resolution

lll_302_lll · 12-01-2005, 08:52 PM

Did your problem get solved ??

by running command # system-config-display

go ahead and try this cmd and lemme know .

thanx

darkervisions · 12-01-2005, 08:55 PM

You type "# system-config-display", right? If so, then nothing happened.

lll_302_lll · 12-01-2005, 09:11 PM

Strange that nothing happened

try this one............. system-config-display --reconfig in text mode.

otherwise you don't you mannually set from graphical mode ? but kindly do me a fav. perhaps you messed with x.org so its quit good if you reboot your computer once
or /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

its better if you reboot

darkervisions · 12-01-2005, 09:16 PM

How do you run it in text mode?

What exactly do I type?

darkervisions · 12-02-2005, 12:53 PM

*bump*

Synt4x_3rr0r · 12-02-2005, 04:47 PM

Are you sure you wrote right in the xorg.conf file?

Here's mine

Code:

Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Yours may not have the 32 Depth, but thats normal.
As you can see I've added "1280x1024" and "1280x960" to all the different depth subsections. Try adding "1280x800" to all your's as well.
Who knows, it might work.

And remember to add it IN FRONT of the old values.

darkervisions · 12-02-2005, 09:45 PM

I did that, it didn't work. :'( It did actually update. I still don't have 800x600 as an option even after rebooting. I copied and pasted yours exactly and it didn't work.

Bruce Hill · 01-10-2006, 05:11 PM

Hope you're not still having to put up with 800x600.

What video card do you have? Issue in a terminal "/sbin/lspci"
And fwiw, when someone tells you a command that has quotes
around it, you just type what's inside the quotes and enter.
For example:

Code:

bruce@silas:~$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

and post that here. Just the line like mine in bold face,
which tells your graphics chipset.

We'll take it from there.

pixellany · 01-10-2006, 05:17 PM

Note that you may have to log out and log in again for the new settings to take hold

Wim Sturkenboom · 01-10-2006, 11:27 PM

I'm missing two lines in the monitor section in your X configuration file as in the example below

Code:

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"MX50"
	Option		"DPMS"
        HorizSync   30.0 - 100.0
        VertRefresh 50 - 160
EndSection

Adding those two lines probably solves the problem. They should reflect the capabilities of your monitor. This can be found in the documentation of your monitor (user manual or internet research).