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From: "Frino Klauss" <frino.klauss@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Screen settings
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:48:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27f7be760602222248h658a42b5s28db0d0812122a1c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a95f61fd0602222214ga41cf50rb1eb3f9e020b545d@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Rajat,
I suggest u add the following to your Screen section.

DefaultDepth 24

just after the Monitor Line.

Cheers,
Ani Adarsh

On 2/23/06, Rajat Gujral <nutts4linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi richard and jerry
> thanx for ur suggestions but i guess my problem remains the same ... My
> xserver still starts with screen resolution of 640 x 480 ... Before the
> improper shutdown it was working fine in 1024 x 768 resolution , but now no
> matter what resolution i provide, it starts up with 640 x 480 resolution
> which makes the screen appear so big .. Is there anything else that i can do
>
>
> Thnx & Regds
>
>
> Rajat :)
>
>
> P.S. I have done "X -configure" and has detected the following settings :
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "X.org <http://x.org/> Configured"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>         RgbPath      "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/modules"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "dri"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "xtrap"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "freetype"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
> Section "Device"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ColorKey"                  # <i>
>         #Option     "CacheLines"                # <i>
>         #Option     "Dac6Bit"                   # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "NoDDC"                     # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"              # <i>
>         #Option     "PageFlip"                  # [<bool>]
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "i810"
>         VendorName  "Intel Corp."
>         BoardName   "82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
>         BusID       "PCI:0:1:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Card0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     1
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     4
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     8
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     15
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     16
>                 Modes     "1024x768"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes     "1024x768"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
>
>
> On 2/22/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/22/06, Jerry Eastmanhouser <fuct.it@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > settings.  I did mine manually a long long time ago, but I think you
> > can use
> > > xorgconfig to detect most of your settings for you...if so...hopefully
> > that
> > > will fix you up.
> >
> > I would suggest instead "X -configure".  That should autodetect most
> > things, unlike xorgconfig which asks you a bunch of questions that
> > most users don't know the answers to.
> >
> > -Richard
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-23  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-22  8:59 [gentoo-user] Screen settings Rajat Gujral
2006-02-22  9:28 ` Jerry Eastmanhouser
2006-02-22 15:04   ` Richard Fish
2006-02-23  6:14     ` Rajat Gujral
2006-02-23  6:47       ` Steven S.
2006-02-23  8:45         ` [gentoo-user] " Rajat Gujral
2006-02-23  9:30           ` Rajat Gujral
2006-02-23  9:54             ` Jerry Eastmanhouser
2006-02-23  6:48       ` Frino Klauss [this message]
2006-02-25  5:14         ` [gentoo-user] " Linux Blues
2006-02-23  7:06       ` Martins Steinbergs
2006-02-24 22:10       ` Walter Dnes

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