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kb19

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Sunday, February 27th 2005, 7:41pm

Screen Resolution Problem

Hi, Im using a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Slackware 10.1 and KDE. The problem I am having is that for some reason my screen display resolution cannot go larger than 1024x768. Does anyone know how I can tweak something so that I can get a larger resolution than 768? Thanks alot.

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Saturday, March 5th 2005, 6:29pm

You'll have to modify your X config file. If you run xorg-x11, then open up xorg-x11.conf (where it is varies by distro but check /etc/X11).

Make your way down to Section "Screen". You should have a variety of different choices configured. It should look something like:

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## Screen sections
Section "Screen"
Identifier      "Main Screen"
Device          "NVIDIA"
Monitor         "Samsung"
DefaultDepth    24
Subsection "Display"
  Depth         24
  Modes         "1280x1024" "1024x768"
  ViewPort      0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection


The directive "Modes" can have different resolutions, separated by a single space, depending on what your monitor supports. After you make these changes, restart X, log back into KDE and you should have new choices in Peripherals --> Display.
-- rm -fr /etc/whitehouse
-- Gentoo | udev | Xorg 6.8.2 | 2.6.14-r4 | KDE 3.5.0