kickass, glad it works now :)
nate On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: boonst >Hi Everybody boonst > boonst > First off, a very big thank you to nate, Brian, and Bryan for all boonst >your help. Just 3 more pillars of the Debian community. boonst > boonst > boonst >The Problem boonst > boonst > With a monitor capabale of achieving (even exceeding) 1600x1200 boonst >resolution, a Diamond FireGL 1000Pro with 8MB VRAM would not exceed boonst >1280x1024. This video card is a GLINT Permedia2 chipset, served by the boonst >3DLabs accelerated server. boonst > boonst > Proper modelines were present for 1600x1200, as in boonst >--------------------------------------- boonst ># 1600x1200 @ 70 Hz, 87.50 kHz hsync boonst >Modeline "1600x1200" 189 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 -HSync -VSync boonst >--------------------------------------- boonst > boonst > boonst >and the modes were defined in the server boonst > boonst >--------------------------------------- boonst > Subsection "Display" boonst > Depth 24 boonst > Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" boonst > ViewPort 0 0 boonst > EndSubsection boonst > Subsection "Display" boonst > Depth 8 boonst > Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" boonst > ViewPort 0 0 boonst > EndSubsection boonst >--------------------------------------- boonst > boonst > boonst >but Ctrl-Alt-+ would never obtain the high-res mode. boonst > boonst > boonst > boonst >The Solution boonst > boonst > The key information was bit depth. The X server defaults to depth boonst >8, for which I had no 1600x1200 mode defined. At first, I tried to set it in boonst >depths 24 and 32, which still didn't work. The ultimate reason was that my boonst >hardware does not support 1600x1200 at these depths. boonst > boonst > Ultimately, the problem was solved by putting the line boonst > boonst >--------------------------------------- boonst > DefaultColorDepth 16 boonst >--------------------------------------- boonst > boonst >into /etc/X11/XF86Config, and by starting X with boonst > boonst >--------------------------------------- boonst >:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -bpp 16 -dpi 100 boonst >--------------------------------------- boonst > boonst >in /etc/X11/kdm/Xservers. boonst > boonst > boonst > A little quality time with the Font Deuglification guide, at boonst > boonst > http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html boonst > boonst >and I am a happy guy. boonst > boonst > boonst > boonst > Thanks, boonst > boonst > Brian boonst > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:01am up 89 days, 18:35, 1 user, load average: 1.92, 1.87, 1.80
