Well ... it depends on your X server and monitor settings. Without knowing
them (and I don't have your earlier messages to refer back to for that
information, if it was in them), I can only give you some general feedback.
X will start up in the first listed size that it can achieve for the color
depth that it starts in (you do the color-depth part by hand). But
regardless of what one it starts in, it will use the resolution of the
highest one specified. So even if your video card plus display will only
support, say, 640*480, you will get that as a "window" into a larger,
1024*768 virtual screen. If the "Virtual" lines were set higher, you'd get a
window into an even larger virtual screen.
What you need to figure out is what in your video or monitor setting is
holding you back to 640*480. It might be the available video memory, the
hscan or vscan frequency, or simply a mismatch between the X server and your
video card. Are you perhaps the poster who was having trouble getting X to
work with an SiS chipset? did you get that part resolved? Might this be a
continuing manifestation of the chipset problem? If you have 8 megs of video
RAM, it certainly isn't a memory problem. Even if I've got you identified
correctly, I don't think you ever mentioned the monitor scan frequencies.
BTW, Gnome has nothing to do with this. It's an X server issue, not a
WM/desktop environment issue.
At 02:01 AM 7/14/00 -0300, Arlequ�n7W4= wrote:
>editing the Screen Section of the XF86Config file I've inserted this lines:
>
>Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "320x200"
> Viewport 0 0
> Virtual 1024 768
>EndSubsection
>Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "320x200"
> Viewport 0 0
> Virtual 1024 768
>EndSubsection
>
>and when I start the X server I have a giant desktop...
>I thought I was trying to increase my resolution (like in windows) but
>suddenly I have an enormous desktop!!
>
>he he
>
>How can I just keep my desktop fit into my screen but with a 800x600 or
>1024x760 resollution ?
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