Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:56:24 -0500 From: "Ne'Bahn" <ne.bahn@gmail.com> To: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com> Subject: Need help with Gnome and Video card Message-ID: <000e01c7091d$13eb7c90$1bd3dcc9@bloodlust> References: <000e01c708d5$808c67d0$92d3dcc9@bloodlust> <14989d6e0611150858i57e5c8ceicd5fcb0a7f85c7f1@mail.gmail.com>
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my conf looks like:
HorizSync 31.5, 35.15, 35.5
VertRefresh 50-70
Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
....
Driver "vga"
Section "Screen"
...
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
...
So I have the same trouble, very low resolution (BIG characters), and about
4 colors depth (black, white, pink, cyan or some kind similar), like the old
ones EGA...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Walther"
To: "Ne'Bahn"
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Need help...
> Hi Ne'Bahn,
>
> it is possible that there is something wrong with your hardware
> configuration, but I guess that your X configuration contains the
> wrong sort order of display resolutions.
> If you look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf you'll find a Section
> "screen" somewhere. This is were the resolutions are configured your
> laptop (and desktop) is capable to display.
>
> Important for your situation are the Subsection "Display" lines, which
> look like this:
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
>
> Now, in your case I guess that the line listing all the modes starts
> with the lowest resolution possible. Just change the order, so that
> the highest resolution is at the beginning, and you should be fine.
>
> Restart X after you edited the file, and you should have a resolution
> that suites your needs. You might want to look at the parameter
> "DefaultDepth", too. If it is set to 8 (8 bit = 256 colors) you might
> want to set it to an higher "Depth" value.
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