On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:54:51 Harry Putnam wrote: > Paul Hartman <[email protected]> writes: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need to > >> learn about if it effects my longtime reliance on xorg.conf to keep > >> using my huge desktops I like to use. For yrs I've > >> used. > >> > >> Subsection "Display" > >> Depth 24 > >> Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > >> Virtual 2048 1536 > >> ViewPort 0 0 > >> EndSubsection > >> EndSection > >> > >> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf > >> To get a 2048x1536 desktop to flop around on. > >> > >> I've never seen or heard of a way to get that without using xorg.conf. > > > > I think you would use xrandr to set it, or your desktop environment's > > GUI settings panel (or equivalent). > > I may be using xrandr wrong but it doesn't do the trick used like > this: > > I'm running an `emerge world' so didn't want to close down X so I used > Ctrl-alt F1 to leave X and then Ctrl-alt F2 to login on a different > virtual terminal. > > Then commented out the `Virtual' line in xorg.conf: > > EndSubsection > Subsection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > # Virtual 2048 1536 > ViewPort 0 0 > EndSubsection > EndSection > > > Then startx on a different display. > > startx -- :1 > > Once X is up: > > xrandr <no args> > shows 1280x1024 as being the highest resolution. > > > xrandr -s 2048x1536 shows: > > Size 2048x1536 not found in available modes > > The xfce display setting tool also shows 1280 as the highest possible > setting. > > I've asked before where else this might be set... in more than 1 > forum. I think you may find its not all that easy to set a Resolution > way higher than your card supports.
Did you look at the man page for xrandr? I think you need the "--fb" & "--panning" options. There is even an example towards the end of the man page. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.
