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getting a bigger screen resolution
Name: drdoog Date: March 18, 2005 at 19:22:46 Pacific OS: Fedora Core 3 CPU/Ram: 1.8GHz/256MB
Comment:
I just went through a long installation process today which involved me having to go all day installing my OS again and again so that it would boot up properly, but now it only has 640x480 and 800x600, but my monitor is 1024x768 and as most of you know, that is too small of a resolution for anything but a program with a fullscreen mode. how can I fix this without having to spend nearly two more hours installing my distro again?
Name: Dlonra Date: March 19, 2005 at 15:08:31 Pacific
Reply:
by googling screen resolution xwindows
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Response Number 2
Name: drdoog Date: March 19, 2005 at 15:31:58 Pacific
Reply:
the only thing I found that worked was to try the command xrandr but that only brought up SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh *0 800 x 600 ( 323mm x 242mm ) *86 1 640 x 480 ( 323mm x 242mm ) 86 Current rotation - normal Current reflection - none Rotations possible - normal Reflections possible - none
and I could not set it otherwise with --size 1024x768
I do not have a /etc/XF86Config or /ect/X11/XF86Config to change.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dlonra Date: March 20, 2005 at 17:17:19 Pacific
Reply:
how about /etc/X11/XF86Config* ?
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Response Number 4
Name: drdoog Date: March 20, 2005 at 18:37:22 Pacific
nope. should I, like, download a new copy of X11 or something?
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Response Number 5
Name: 3Dave Date: March 21, 2005 at 01:40:35 Pacific
Reply:
xorg.conf is the file you want. Due to licencing, X has slightly changed in newer distros.
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Response Number 6
Name: drdoog Date: March 21, 2005 at 03:41:14 Pacific
Reply:
^_^ thanks.
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Response Number 7
Name: drdoog Date: March 21, 2005 at 03:54:44 Pacific
Reply:
I changed the modes line to Modes "1024x768" but screen resolution (the program) still is set with 800x600 and 640x480 do I have to restart or just log out? I've only logged out, so I'm just saying this incase something is still wrong, because I don't have time to restart my computer now.
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Response Number 8
Name: drdoog Date: March 21, 2005 at 12:51:37 Pacific
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okay, I restarted my computer and it loaded still in 800x600 but 1024x768 was available, and I am now using it. Thank you for helping me!
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Response Number 9
Name: unixhead Date: March 21, 2005 at 15:10:43 Pacific
Reply:
I've never used Fredora. But, I'm guessing if it's based on Red Hat, GNOME is ypur default desktop. The resolution setting in GNOME will override the X configuration. But you can change that by selecting "screen resolution" from the main menu.
The only other thing I can think of, is possibly the mode line in xorg.conf is not set for 1024x768 by default. The X config will take the leftmost value as the default:
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
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Response Number 10
Name: drdoog Date: March 22, 2005 at 16:01:20 Pacific
Reply:
oh, sorry. I must have forgotten to say that it worked after I restarted.
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