Thank you Matt! I appreciate your rapid response. I will attempt this in the
next day or so and let you know what I found about my machine.
Again, thanks for the rapid response.
Steve Weltman
"Brash, Matthew" wrote:
> Steve, I'm on my windows machine at work, so I don't know the exact details
> of the config file, but in your /etc/X11 directory there is a file called
> XF86Config or XF86Config.4 or -4 for X version 4.0
> Inside this file (use a text editor) there is a section for the colour depth
> and screen modes, etc... I believe it's in a section called "Screen"...
> anyway, there's a couple subsections called "Display".
> In this you can change the "Viewport" if there is one. If there isn't,
> adding "Viewport" (without the quotes) and then the ration you want like 1 0
> or 2 0, then you should get a virtual sized desktop the next time you
> restart X. As for the colour depth, before those "Display" subsections, add
> the line DefaultColorDepth 24 or 32 or whatever depth you want as default.
> I'm sorry that this is very wordy and very confusing. I should look up a
> config file for you...
> #---------------
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "3Dfx Interactive Voodoo3"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultColorDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 1
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 4
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 15
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1152x864" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> #--------------------
> This is just an example... see above where it says "ViewPort 0 0"... that's
> the virtual desktop of NONE, so there is no virtual desktop. If you already
> have that line - experiment with it... even try commenting it out.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Weltman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 7:33 PM
> To: Newbie List
> Subject: [newbie] X-Window display settings
>
> Hi...I have a IBM TP600 running Mandrake 7.02, 96MB RAM, 6GB HD, 2M
> video ram, 1024X764X16million colors (24 bit) without difficulties,
> unsure of other details...but I can check if asked specifically...
>
> I am looking to see if there's a way to increase the number of colors
> (color depth?) so that I can display HP OpenView correctly. Some of the
> icons appear black as opposed to colored. Also, I can't find any
> settings to allow a "virtual" desktop type of sizing arrangement. I
> need a larger display area, because the NMS display wants to use
> something like 1152X860 or close to that. I know that this sounds too
> "windoz-ish", but I am new at Linux, but starting to really enjoy what
> it can do (and fixing whatever I can, that it cannot currently).
>
> Thanks for your time!!
>
> Steve Weltman
