[gentoo-user] Re: Screen settings

["Rajat Gujral" <nutts4linux@gmail.com>]

Hi frino , steve

i have added defaultdepth 24 to xorg.conf file but it still takes the
resolution as 640 x 480 ... I have checked the control panel
>pheripherals > display and there is only 1 resolution availiable
nothing else ..

Now what shld i do pls help me through it ...


Thanx and rgds


Rajat

On 2/23/06, Steven S. <stupendoussteve@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rajat Gujral wrote:
>
> Have you tried adding the option DefaultDepth? Since you have the Modes
> 1024x768 for 24, it should come out looking
> like:
>
>   Section "Screen"
>          Identifier "Screen0"
>          Device     "Card0"
>          Monitor    "Monitor0"
>  	DefaultDepth 24
>          SubSection "Display"
>                  Viewport   0 0
>                  Depth     1
>          EndSubSection
>
> This is the only way I am ever able to get my system to go to 1280x1024,
> possibly it'll force yours to the correct setting.
>
> > 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 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
> >>
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