Screen Resolution
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Sun Jun 25 23:04:49 UTC 2006
On 6/25/06, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm having a bit of a problem with setting X to use a higher
> resolution. Under Winblows, this monitor, a Viewsonic Graphics Series
> G810, can run 1280x1024 just fine. But I can't get it to do that under
> X. I can run system-config-display and set it to 1280x1024 but then
> when I restart X, the screen is all screwed up. I get horizontal lines
> all over it and you can barely read anything.
>
> At first I thought maybe it was my refresh rates, but after
> verifying with Viewsonic, they match and are what they should be:
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "ViewSonic G810"
> HorizSync 30.0 - 97.0
> VertRefresh 50.0 - 180.0
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> As for the video card, it's a:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "trident"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "Trident Blade3D (generic)"
> Option "NoAccel"
> EndSection
>
> What else should I be looking at to figure out this problem? I'd
> like to get the monitor running with a higher resolution, at least,
> higher than 1024x768.
>
> Thanks.
>
You did not specify the amount of graphics memory available. Try using
a lower color depth. Perhaps 256 colors will do the trick.
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