[NBLUG/talk] 1600x1200 Rez in X

[bm]

Hi Steve,

Private e-mail.   If it works tell the group....

On another distribution, with a different video card,
the install did not recognize my nice high video resolution.

I had to manually make 2 mods to the X config file.  In my
case the file was ..../xorg.conf (from memory so please
check)

change 1 video driver from "vesa" (again memory) to "radeon" (memory
again) You would need driver for your card instead of my ATI card.

change 2 replace the default resolution ("800x600") with desired
resolution.

I believe that the pixel depth was acceptable.

Restarting X resulted in the desired resolution.

Sorry to not be able to look at machine so I could give
you precise exact information.   If you want, I will try
to access machine and get back to you.

HTH

--Bill Marlin

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:52:19PM -0700, Steve Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running Debian Testing, with KDE as my desktop, I just got a nice
> 20" LCD Display that has a native mode of 1600x1200..
> 
> For some reason I can't get X to run at the res.  The highest it seems
> to want to go is 1200x1024, Which is OK.. but not what I want.
> 
> I'm running a GForce 5200 video card, with a Dell 2001FP Display.   If
> I force the res to 1600x1200 in the XF86conifig file to 1600x1200, it
> drops to some 1450x??? res which looks pretty bad on this display.
> 
> Anyone know what I need to do to get X to support 1600x1200?
> 
> -Steve
> 
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