I am having serious difficulties with video control on this box.... See below.
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:44 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
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Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync 31.5 - 48.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 Option "dpms" EndSection
You may not need the monitor section. If anything like DDC (I think that's what it's acronym is - Display Data Control?) is in operation, it will piuck up the proper rates automatically. I don't have a monitor section at all in my xorg.conf. But I'm running a normal "desktop" node with conventional monitor.
Regardless, even if needed, try what I show below.
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "vesa" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
My "Screen" section looks like this. Watch out for the line wrap on "Modes".
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" EndSubSection EndSection
Something is really not working....
I have changed inittab to: id:3:initdefault:
I am logged in as root, and run: system-config-display --reconfig
I go into the Hardware tab. There I see it lists my video card; when I go into configure the video card, it shows VESA (my video card is not a listed card). For the monitor type, I select LCD Monitor 1280x1024. Back to the Settings tab, I select 1024x768. I click on OK to save all this, and system-config-display ends.
I then run: init 5
It comes up in 640x480 mode (according to Preferences>Screen Resolution), and no other mode is listed.
I go to Administration>Display, where it lists the current mode as 640x480, I select 1024x768 and click on OK (can barely see the OK button). I open a terminal window and run init 3 to get me out of X. I run init 5 again. The login screen is at a higher resolution than before, but once I log in as root, it is back to 640x480!
The display subsection in /etc/X11/xorg.conf lists only the modes: "1024x768" "800x600" "600x480".
In the standard XP that comes with the units, the default resolution is 800x480 and you can increase that and use the capacitor scroll bars to scroll the screen.
help....