Re: [Newbie]how to get virtual screen size of 1024x768 ati mobilitym4

[Rick Pettit]

>  I have a dell inspiron 8000 with ati mobility M4 32mb
> I juat installed redhat 7.3. X windows is working fine
> but I am only gettin resolutions of 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.
> these resolutionsare too high and the fonts are hardly readable.
> 
> Is it possible to have a virtual screen size of 1024x768 ( lower
> than these resolutions)

Attached is my config file which probably won't help (sorry) but it has 
the card working on 1400x1050.

Don't imagine 1024x768 should be a problem, though, if you play around 
w/the config file a bit.

-Rick

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "GLcore"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "pex5"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xie"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "wsmouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        HorizSync    31.3 - 90.0
        VertRefresh  60.0
        Modeline "1400x1050" 108.000 1400 1448 1462 1688 1050 1050 1053 1066
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "ATI"
        BoardName   "Rage 128 Mobility MF"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 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
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     32
        EndSubSection
EndSection