From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 16: 4:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CD137C2D7 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: from bronyaur (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA17208; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:53:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <004f01bfa07f$ca4a9740$555be3d8@telocity.com> From: "Otter" To: "adi milis" , References: <20000406105828.11093.qmail@web3102.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: startx Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 06:55:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "adi milis" To: Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: startx > Hii FreeBSD'ers > > I use FreeBSD-3.2. I installed XFree, and I believe I > followed all the instructions. Monitor type : AOC > Spectrum 5Elr, with specifications : > Horizontal Synchronization : 30KHz - 54KHz > automatically. > Vertical Synchronization : 50KHz - 120KHz > automatically. > Max Resolution : 1024 x 768 > Video bandwidth : 65MHz ( where could I configure this > one ? ) > Factory Preset Timings : 7 > The problem is 'Why everything seems 3 or four times > bigger ?' It has to do with the modelines you have available at the beginning of your XF86Config. Later on in that file where it has the set for default depth, under that depth are your available resolutions. The first resolution on that line will be your default res. This resolution can be changed to the other resolutions on that line (while in an x11 session) by using the ctrl+alt and <-/+> together, for smaller or larger . It takes some playing with and tweaking at first to understand it, but once you see how it works, you'll be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to modify. You said it comes up too big... so you have video. That's a good start. You can work from there. Try the ctrl+alt+<-/+> and edit your XF86Config as I mentioned earlier to get the default res you want. Hint: make sure you have write privs on that file before you start tweaking it. Otherwise, it won't save. -Otter p.s. No, I don't Yahoo! (see below) > Shall I also put my /etc/XF86Config here ? if you don't uunderstand what i just wrote above, go ahead. > > Thanks > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? No thanks. I'm driving. > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message