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leehinkleman

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Tuesday, December 31st 2002, 9:33pm

Screen resolution change needed

KDE in FreeBSD 4.7 launches from 'startx' with a huge desktop. Ctl+Alt+- done twice reduces the desktop to a managable, but unknown size. The size could be 1600x1200 but, whatever it is, 800x600 would be nicer, and 800x600 works in the same machine with RedHat8.0 and 3 versions of MS OSs. I found and tried to install resolution changing tools, including kvidtune, kchangeres, but ./configure ended with QT-1.33 library errors, and Qt-3.05 seems not to be backward compatible. Is there a way to have 800x600 resolution, or even to find out what the resolution is now?
Thanks for your help.

Kenneth

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Tuesday, December 31st 2002, 10:09pm

I don't know anything about using BSDs although I intend to try them, so I can't help you. I can't find a way to change it through the Control Center and the only way for me to change it is to use the Mandrake Control Center that comes with Mandrake. Can't you just edit the X config files?
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leehinkleman

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Wednesday, January 1st 2003, 6:41am

XF86Config edited

Thanks for your reply, and I have tried editing
/etc/X11/XF86Config
by adding more modes and ModeLines, to make XF86Config look more like the versions in RedHat8.0 and RedHat7.0(which is in another machine) but video configurators like your Mandrake tool and redhat-config-xfree86 in RedHat8.0 are difficult for me to find now, so some of those previous tools like kvidtune and xvidtune( which ended with a floating point exception) could be helpful.

IlMaz

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Sunday, January 26th 2003, 1:05pm

maybe...

...you edited the wrong file. In Mandrake you can install XFree 4 as log as XFree 3.x. XFree 4 uses /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 .Also modelines are unuseful... You can check wich file X is using by issuing (as root) from a terminal

less /var/log/XFree86.0.log

and look for:

[code:1]
XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 3 September 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-23mdkenterprise i686 [ELF]
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 26 13:09:22 2003
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[/code:1]

Then put something like this in your config file:

[code:1]
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce 256 (generic)"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
[/code:1]

The first entry in the Modes section is the resolution at wich X will start, the others are obtained pressing Ctrl+Alt+(plus or minus). So if you want to use 800x600 put this as first entry and the others after that. Also ViewPort 0 0 helps.
Forget about graphical tools: life is simpler.Hope this helps. Maz