[plug] Display properties and problems

[Bernard Blackham]

> > 15" monitor which I think, judging by the flatness of it's screen, is
> > SVGA *grin* Now, when I set up RH 7 I specified the correct video card
> > and the generic 600x800 SVGA monitor.  However, the display seems to
> > be only 640x480.  Beyond this, I cannot get to the cancel/apply/etc

> Alternatively, You _should_ also be able to press <Alt>+<Ctrl>+<NumPad
+>
> or <Alt>+<Ctrl>+<NumPad -> to scroll through your video resolutions,
> but I've never been able to get this to work. I just set mine to
> 1024x768 and left it there.

Aha.. now that I can be bothered looking at it... Alt+Ctrl+NP+/- now works
for me (weird). You can use Alt+Ctrl+NP +/- to change resolutions whilst
in X, but X will always start with the first resolution listed in the
XF86Config file. Reverse the order to how you want them (order of
pref) and voila :)

Mine as example:

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "svga"
    DefaultColorDepth   16
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    .
    .
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

HTH,

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au