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chris Forum Fanatic
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 16777201 Location: ~/security-forums
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 5:38 pm Post subject: KDE 3 screen resolution |
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Ok peeps now in the position where I will be using KDE3 on a machine next to me on the latest distro of slack.
Quite happy with with most the command line stuff that its being used for but pretty much a KDE virgin.
Had a look through gnone and a few of the others but am gonna have a play with KDE3
Its only running on a 15" monitor and it *looks* like its on 1024x768
Id like to take this down to 800x600
Would like to know where to change this but not actually through KDE as ive had resolution problems before.
Ive been looking at the following:
/etc/X11/XF86Config
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Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 260 190 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "ADI"
ModelName "ADI MS-4P"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
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Whats the best way to get into 800x600
Have tried the usual ctrl+alt then keypad +/- but its cycling through really wierd resolutions
any help appreciated
thanks
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ShaolinTiger Forum Fanatic
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 16777215 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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The CTRL+ALT +/- will cycle through the resolutions in the X86 config file.
Stick the right res in there then just cycle to it.
I got my KDE3 on 1024x768 on a 15" monitor.
Looks decent.
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chris Forum Fanatic
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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Whats the right format for the screen resolutions then
cat your whole XF86Config file
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werem00se Just Arrived
Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 0 Location: U.S.A (west)
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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What your looking for is at the end of the XF86Config file. Its not the:
Section "Monitor:
It is the "Screen" section and should look similar to this:
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "<Your video device>"
Monitor "<Your Monitor>"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes 1024x768
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes 800x600
EndSubsection |
Then comment out (#) what you don't want
Or something like that.
Man, that did NOT fornat right..
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b4rtm4n Trusted SF Member
Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 16777206 Location: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:27 am Post subject: |
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xf86setup (i think) will make life a bit easier for you.
It should have been installed with the packages for X.
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hads Trusted SF Member
Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 3 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:49 am Post subject: |
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I think its `xf86config` for the command line config tool.
This is the relevant section from my Slack 8.1 install (it has X on it and occasionally I export clients to my desktop but it's mostly a server) I can't remember what I used to generate it but it has good comments in it
From memory X should take the first usable resolution from left to right and start with that.
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# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "VESA Framebuffer"
Monitor "My Monitor"
# If your card can handle it, a higher default color depth (like 24 or 32)
# is highly recommended.
# DefaultDepth 8
DefaultDepth 16
# DefaultDepth 24
# DefaultDepth 32
# "1024x768" is also a conservative usable default resolution. If you
# have a better monitor, feel free to try resolutions such as
# "1152x864", "1280x1024", "1600x1200", and "1800x1400" (or whatever your
# card/monitor can produce)
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection |
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hads Trusted SF Member
Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 3 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:54 am Post subject: |
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I've never been able to figure out the <ctrl><alt>+/- thing myself actually. It always seems to stretch/skew the screen when I try it.
Oh well.
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ShaolinTiger Forum Fanatic
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 16777215 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 11:06 am Post subject: |
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Here's mine from Debian:
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# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# To change things within the debconf section, run the command:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
# as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated
# XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz.
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "pex5"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "xie"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc103"
Option "XkbLayout" "uk"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "//[b][/b]dev[b][/b]/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "//[b][/b]dev[b][/b]/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "ati"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 28-49
VertRefresh 43-72
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection |
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