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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:11:06 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Cannot change X screen resolution
Message-ID:  <20020305210837.C203-100000@pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020305061845.E203-100000@pukruppa.de>

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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> > On Monday,  4 March 2002 at 20:06:55 +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just installed the latest XFree86-4 port on my -STABLE machine.
> > > Now I can't change the screen resolution by typing
> > > <ctrl> + <alt> + <numpad +>  ( or <numpad ->)
> > > anymore - which was quite a helpful feature, because I am little
> > > bit short-sighted.
> > >
> > > I am using the same XF86Config as before.
> >
> > There has been a format change since 3.3.6.  Are you sure it's really
> > using the same config file?
> Actually I did not upgrade from 3.3.6 but from some Xfree86-4
> (perhaps 3 or 4 months old - Zoom worked with that one).
> So indeed I use the same config file.
>
>
> > > Any idea how I can restore this "zoom" feature?
> >
> > Capture the output of the X startup and check the messages.
> I tried
> 	# startx 2 > & 1  > /var/tmp/startuplog
> and get
> 	Ambiguous output redirect.
> :-(
Ok, one has to change to
# sh
before this would work,
*but* startuplog stays clean and empty!

Regards,

Uli.



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