From: Steffan Henke (henker_at_informatik.uni-bremen.de)
Date: Fri Jul 09 1999 - 13:47:24 EDT
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Pat Presidente wrote:
> Thanks to those who responded to my Linux display problem. Getting there
> slowly - I now have a display but it's very large and I need to scroll
> around on it.
What do you mean by "very large" - do you have a larger virtual desktop
than the actual resolution ? You can define your virtual screen in
XF86Config.
> How do you change the resolution under Linux?
If you have defined different resolutions in your XF86Config, you
toggle the resolution by pressing CTRL+ALT+Plus/Minus on the numeric
keypad, resp.
> During the installation, when it gave me a number of choices (8, 16, and 24
> bit with different resolutions), I selected a number of them - ie. what I
> have in Win 98. Should I have just selected one?
If you want a working Config file for the 560 (Trident Chipset) I can
email you mine but I do not want to post it to the list. I have X running
smoothly at 800x600, the same as in Windows.
With some versions of XFree86 there are some troubles.
Regards,
Steffan
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