From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCCBm-00007I-UJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:51:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1N8o44L023074; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:50:04 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1N8k0aS004356 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:46:00 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h30so4029wxd for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:45:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o85Fpp6WIx3YW3kTNnO7vjFu38IPJVJ81GZNlRF5k7j9npVFa8g2j0x5LN66PoKakjWcLYf7YDquCEfSG1sS4uXaXD0cNDJrLecUQbEYWPSMQi7CIkXwuDpxdtjjIB+Yvoi6ieMMlfXkrELYb/zL3D+xIwS9oOED8J+3lNLIXnY= Received: by 10.70.110.3 with SMTP id i3mr2413489wxc; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:45:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.105.8 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:45:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:45:59 +0000 From: "Rajat Gujral" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen settings In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <87f1fb0a0602220128r539faab4x82a07d287f9f7f29@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640602220704v5fa18b28j1d9aae0a37a4a294@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1N8k0aS004356 X-Archives-Salt: b7730539-beee-498a-9635-e1670a1068a7 X-Archives-Hash: 089fed5e60fe41f8718687783565fe44 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. 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: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", > > ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" > > ### [arg]: arg optional > > #Option "NoAccel" # [] > > #Option "SWcursor" # [] > > #Option "ColorKey" # > > #Option "CacheLines" # > > #Option "Dac6Bit" # [] > > #Option "DRI" # [] > > #Option "NoDDC" # [] > > #Option "ShowCache" # [] > > #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # > > #Option "PageFlip" # [] > > 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 wrote: > >> > >> On 2/22/06, Jerry Eastmanhouser 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 > >> > >> > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list