Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( i've

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 10:12, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: all

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On a slightly different note, is there much point in going to the higher resolutions even if they are available? My monitor will go up to 1600x1440 but in practice I don't find any use in going above 1024x768. I know the

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: nate wrote: Ross Boylan said: I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the need to start X in a lower resolution and depth

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: anything else). Second, you can change your font on the fly or via X resources or application default settings. Indeed, I run a 20 Viewsonic 20G at the office here at 1600x1200. My xterms are set to use a 10x20 font, and I use icewm with the blueHeart

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: CGA: 640 X 200 (8*8 font, 80chars * 25 lines) DCGA: 640 X 400 (8*16 font, 80chars * 25 lines) VGA: 640 x 480 SVGA: 800 x 720 XGA: 1024 x 768 SXGA 1280 x1024 UXGA: 1600 x1440 [snip] On a

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: What I do is just make up a second Section Screen in the same XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I just do: startx -- :1 -screen itsidentifier but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: What I do is just make up a second Section Screen in the same XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I just do: startx -- :1

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: What I do is just make up a second Section Screen in the same XF86Config-4 and give it

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-19 Thread Travis Crump
nate wrote: Ross Boylan said: I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the need to start X in a lower resolution and depth than I customarily use. I am looking for a good way to do that, or

How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-18 Thread Ross Boylan
I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the need to start X in a lower resolution and depth than I customarily use. I am looking for a good way to do that, or the encouraging news that some

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-18 Thread nate
Ross Boylan said: I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the need to start X in a lower resolution and depth than I customarily use. I am looking for a good way to do that, or the