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 >> <snip> >> > > >> 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....