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Michael Chare

2004-11-09, 5:45 pm

I am running a new test release of Debian to get support for my Silicon Image
SATA chipset.

This has configured my system so that the maximum screen resolution I can set is
800x600.

My hardware supports up to 1600x1200.

How to I configure my system to get some more pixels on the screen?

Does XF86Setup still exist? if so where might I find it?

--

Michael Chare


Andy Fraser

2004-11-09, 8:45 pm

In alt.os.linux.debian, Michael Chare uttered these immortal words:

> I am running a new test release of Debian to get support for my Silicon
> Image SATA chipset.
>
> This has configured my system so that the maximum screen resolution I can
> set is 800x600.
>
> My hardware supports up to 1600x1200.
>
> How to I configure my system to get some more pixels on the screen?


You should've been given the chance to set this up when X was installed. If
you missed it you can go through it again with:

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

An alternative is to edit the modes lines in the screen section of your
XF86Config-4 file:

Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

--
Andy.
MunderscoreNEWS@chareDOTorg.uk

2004-11-10, 2:45 am

Andy Fraser wrote:

> In alt.os.linux.debian, Michael Chare uttered these immortal words:
>
>
> You should've been given the chance to set this up when X was installed.
> If you missed it you can go through it again with:
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86


Many thanks I have now got it to work properly


>
> An alternative is to edit the modes lines in the screen section of your
> XF86Config-4 file:


I did a search and could not find this file.

>
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>


--
Michael Chare
Andy Fraser

2004-11-10, 7:45 am

In alt.os.linux.debian, MunderscoreNEWS@chareDOTorg.uk uttered the immortal
words:

>
> I did a search and could not find this file.


I didn't have a Debian box with X installed booted at the time. :-)

For reference and off the top of my head I think it's in /etc/X11. You might
have XF86Config instead of XF86Config-4.

--
Andy.
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