Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 00:23:10 -0400 From: "E. Smith \(Sony\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Got it1!
Thanks, Neil. -e. -----Original Message----- From: neil barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 3:58 AM To: Libretto Subject: Re: Got it1! Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 07:47:50 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Got it1! >Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:40:07 -0400 >From: "E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Got it1! > >Isn't there a keystroke combination to have the libretto use a >"virtual-size >desktop" when it has a > VGA resolution being fed to it? > >I can only see a little of the default Gnome desktop on my screen and it >doesn't scroll when I go to the edge. > When you installed the video driver, you probably told it you had a default 640*480 LCD screen - so that's what it's set up to use. *X3.36 and friends only - not X4* in /etc/X11/XF86config, right at the end, there's a section called "Screen" which has several subsections 'Display' These will say something like: Depth 8 Modes "640x480" Viewport 0 0 and just before these will be a line that says DefaultColorDepth 16 (or 8 or 24 or 32) You need to add a line after the Viewport line in the colour depth you want to use to give the size of the virtual screen: for the 50/70 the maximum is 640*480 in 24 bit, 800*600 in 16 or 15 bit, 1024*768 in 8 bit (yuck) - so I have: Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "640x480" Viewport 0 0 Virtual 800 600 <--- new line and the default colour depth set to 16 so it wakes up with a scrolling 800 by 600 window. There are several different drivers it can use and I've never worked out which one works - so I put this in "svga" and "accel" and everything is happy. I've posted my XF86Config in the recent past so it should be in the archive somewhere. I haven't got my pcmcia network card running yet so I can't post from the lib at present. Note: things are different in X4. Neil _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ************************************************************** ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
