Re: 755CX: 800x600 doesn't seem to work for me

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From: Sven Utcke (sven.utcke_at_gmx.de)
Date: Wed Aug 18 1999 - 05:36:14 EDT

Hello Andy,

> I just purchased a 755CX. It's a beautiful machine. I installed Linux and
> everything went very well. Even my network card worked the first time! The
> only thing I need to make it perfect is to get the display to work with X in
> 800x600 mode.
[...]
> Anyway, I've been operating under the assumption that I got the right laptop.
> I've looked at all of the sites that talk about running Xwindows in 800x600
> mode. They all talk about the command 'ps2 mode3x on'.

Are you sure? "ps2 mode3x on" is, as far as I can tell, a DOS/Windows
program, so wont help you with running X under Linux. Possibly X
under DOS/Windows, but not Linux...

> Or, if you have that Linux program that does the same thing or know
> where I could get it, let me know. Or, if I've completely missed
> something very important (a strong possiblity), tell me.

This is in fact very likely --- I assume you have never before
installed Linux / XWindow (not XWindow_s_, there is no "s")? The
traditional way to do this is to edit /etc/X*config (XF86config, I
would guess). This unfortunately requires that you know what you are
doing...

However, most modern distributions come with programs that can edit
this file for you. Such a tool might be called xf86config, or sax, or
somesuch (I'm the hand-editing kind of guy, so I don't really remember
the names). Simply look into the manual for your distribution, or
possibly wade through the output of either

man -k config | less

or

man -k X | less

or in yast (assuming SuSE. It's the program used for installing
additional packages), have a look at the different X-programs on
offer...

Hope this helps

Sven 

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