Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-21 Thread Glenn Becker
take the time to read that page, it should clear up the issue for you. OK ... I got my xorg.conf fixed up to my liking. Now ... ... for me, the real issue here isn't the need to learn something new: shoot, that's fun. The issue for me here was that, as far as I was aware, it just changed an

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-21 Thread Glenn Becker
This is from the post that Mirko Parthey posted: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 a good read. you can add an "Option" along these lines under Monitor: Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768_60.00" (assuming 60hz refresh rate, if it is something else, change _60.00 to something

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Glenn Becker wrote: I stupidly deleted a response to my question regarding my "skeletal" xorg.conf file. IIRC, the question was whether my file did not in fact have a "Screen" section. It does, but it is as empty as the other sections. Since it doesn't amount to much, the whole thing follow

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-21 Thread John Hasler
Glenn Becker writes: > I stupidly deleted a response to my question regarding my "skeletal" > xorg.conf file. IIRC, the question was whether my file did not in fact > have a "Screen" section. It does, but it is as empty as the other > sections. Just fill the section in with what you want there. --

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-21 Thread Glenn Becker
I stupidly deleted a response to my question regarding my "skeletal" xorg.conf file. IIRC, the question was whether my file did not in fact have a "Screen" section. It does, but it is as empty as the other sections. Since it doesn't amount to much, the whole thing follows. # xorg.conf (X.O

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-21 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:45:44AM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings > changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can > recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was > defaulting to 1400x1050. I

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Glenn Becker wrote: Hi all - I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was defaulting to 1400x1050. It is nice to see that my older laptop

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 20:45, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi all - > > I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings changed > (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can recall) so > that the screen resolution on Gnome, for exampl