-----Original Message----- From: Leo Mauler
And I'd like to change existing resolutions quickly and easily.
This has always been easy to do, at least for as long as I have used Linux. <ctrl><alt><+> or <ctrl><alt><-> The issue I have is that be default it will create a 640x480 screen, then 800x600, then 1024x768. If you can't get anything else to work 640x480 will allow you to do most everything, but I'd like to be able to install X and get it running at the resolution I choose or higher, not lower. For years there was no way to do this without hacking the config files. I seem to remember at least one install I had recently allowed me to at least remove the lower resolutions, but I could just be dreaming. I know my current desktop has the 640 and 800 options in the X files. I've been to lazy to go and edit them out.
Glad you got your video working again. Hopefully you have the changed config file someplace so you can do a "diff" on the original and changed to see what might have been the offending line(s)?
Brian
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Brian Densmore wrote: |>-----Original Message----- |>From: Leo Mauler |> |>And I'd like to change existing resolutions quickly |>and easily. | | This has always been easy to do, at least for as long | as I have used Linux. | <ctrl><alt><+> or <ctrl><alt><-> | The issue I have is that be default it will create a 640x480 | screen, then 800x600, then 1024x768. If you can't | get anything else to work 640x480 will allow you to do most | everything, but I'd like to be able to install X and get it | running at the resolution I choose or higher, not lower. For years | there was no way to do this without hacking the config files. I | seem to remember at least one install I had recently allowed me to | at least remove the lower resolutions, but I could just be dreaming. | I know my current desktop has the 640 and 800 options in the X files. | I've been to lazy to go and edit them out. <snip />
All you have to do is change the order of the modes in the screen subsection. ~ This is what the section from my home desktop looks like.
Section "Screen" ... SubSection "Display" ~ Depth 32 ~ Modes "1600x1200" "1200x1024" "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600" ~ EndSubSection
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