screen res etc

[bob]

G'mornin Leigh! Thanks for jumping in with that one. How about that missing quotation mark on the end of 1024x768 though?

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by bob

G'mornin Leigh! Thanks for jumping in with that one. How about that missing quotation mark on the end of 1024x768 though?

Hi Bob,

Thanks for pointing out the missing quotation mark , I copied the base xorg.conf from post #10
which also has this mistake.

Leigh

[Firewing1]

Also, one you're made changes to xorg.conf, you have to go [menu] System > Preferences > Screen Resolution and see what's there, because Gnome remembers your previous resolution, so even if you may be allowing X to do 1024x768, since your last session was 800x600 it won't switch until you tell it to.
Firewing1

[marko]

When the graphical system is running, try the xrandr command to see what
resolutions your X server thinks your card can do:

$> xrandr
 SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
*0   1280 x 1024   ( 363mm x 272mm )  *85   75   60  
 1   1280 x 960    ( 363mm x 272mm )   85   60  
 2   1280 x 800    ( 363mm x 272mm )   85   75   70   60  
 3   1600 x 1200   ( 363mm x 272mm )   75   60   70   65   85  
 4   1152 x 864    ( 363mm x 272mm )   75   100  85   70   60  
 5   1152 x 768    ( 363mm x 272mm )   55  
 6   1024 x 768    ( 363mm x 272mm )   85   75   70   60   87  
 7    800 x 600    ( 363mm x 272mm )   85   75   72   60   56   70   65

and so on. The "*" shows my X is running at 1280x1024 85 and it can
do all those other resolutions and refreshes. Then you can try
any of those other ones by using the -s flag:

xrandr -s 7

will tell it to try 800x600

for example.

Mark

[bob]

Great info, Marko. Never saw that tweak before. Thanks!

[Monarch]

that last one should i just cut and paste over the entire existing one and replace it?

btw for the first depth (24) i added the mode there was nothing there for resolution so i just guessed at that

[Monarch]

ok i didn't floolow that last step but i did go and try to select my monitor and my res showed up in monitor types i selected it logged out then i had to select my res settings and log out again boom worked thanks to everyone who hepled me

btw i guess i didn't notice there was a second page to all this so i did miss a bunch of advice sorry bout that i think maybe the missing quoatation marks was the prob cause when i went to go select my monitor type today all these diff res showed up instead of just crt or lcd

[rogueuser]

II followed your instruction in the terminal box but it states that "it does not exist do you want to save it?" any other ideas?