On Thursday 03 March 2005 17:33, Ken Bloom wrote: > > > Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > find > Section "Screen" > then find the Subsection "Display" which corresponds to the default > color depth. Add "1024x768" at the beginning of the Modes line. > First let me say thanks Ken and thanks David.
Believe it or not, the solution does not work. I ended up modifying the resolution for all color depth entries. I added 1024x768 and removed all other resolutions. Here's what happens when I reboot. When X starts the bottom one fifth of the screen becomes a black band. The the screen blinks, and you see a small mouse pointer indicating that the resolution is 1024x768. But then the screen blinks again and the mouse arrow is big indicating that I'm back at 800x600. GNOME continues to boot, and there I am in 800x600. Now here's another mystery. When I type "xandr" I'm given about 4 screen resolutions. This is interesting since XFConfig-4 has only one; 1024x768. What's more xandr has an asterisk indicating that my resolution is set at 800x600. I'm wondering if something is overriding XF86Config-4. Could GDM be doing something? Here's another thought. You might remember several weeks ago when I was trying to set up X. I was trying to follow the directions for an outdated version of X. I'm wondering if I may have set up another configuration file like you used to do before Linux started using XFConfig-4. Does anybody have any thoughts about this? In the meantime I'll start looking for another configuration file that I may have set up. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
