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hi
my screen resoluion options are only 800x600 and 640x480.
i know that my monitor can do more...
ive looked onlune and someone told me to do the following:
As root, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"
i did it, and selected the resolutions i wanted to handle but nothing happens, i still cant change my resolution to higher than 800x600
i am running debian 3.1r1 i386, my video card is a radeon 9800 pro
thks
Ensure your configuration file was editted correctly...I believe it is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to be something like this...
...I found that even though I had run the config command it didn't add the entry to XF86Config-4. I have also had to remove the 800x600 and 640x480 resolutions to make it work as well, then restart X. The only problem is if you remove the other resolutions you obviously won't be able to switch to the lower resolution. Good Luck!Code:Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Chad
Yes, Chad, that's exactly right. My distribution usually sets that stuff up for me correctly, but once in a while, they don't do it automatically. An associate of mine has been tinkering with a straight Debian distribution at work, and whether he didn't configure the monitor or if it just set basic defaults, he had the 800x600 and 640x480 settings, but not the 1024x768 setting. So I had him edit the Modes lines just as you show them above, and of course, it worked as soon as we reset the X server.Quote:
Originally Posted by LNXchd
yay, it works.. thanks alot chad
Thanks for the post - I also had problems with refresh rates and dimensions of monitors. Is there a similar configuration file for whether or not the hard drive starts up in 32 bit I/O, as hdparm -c[number] does not work. Please, no hdparm suggestions.
Kind of hard to do that since that is hdparm's function in life.Quote:
Is there a similar configuration file for whether or not the hard drive starts up in 32 bit I/O, as hdparm -c[number] does not work. Please, no hdparm suggestions.
Don't know of too many ways around it. You need to ensure you have DMA support compiled in your kernel, otherwise those commands will do you no good. Good Luck!Code:#hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda --> turn on 32-bit I/O
#hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda -->turn on DMA mode
#hdparm -t /dev/hda -->to test setup
#hdparm -k 1 /dev/hda -->to commit the settings
#hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda -->added to /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it will start at boot
Don't hijack threads...should start a new one. ;)
Chad