On 27/01/11 18:24, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/01/27 12:38 (GMT+0200) Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) composed:
Running OpenSuSe 11.2 and a 11.3 on separate hardware both with KDE and would like to find out which file I can edit using my trusty Kate or kwrite text editor that would control the screen resolution.
Which file(s) to edit, and how, may depend on which video driver you use, but generally, in 11.2 this is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
In 11.2 there is a file named /etc/X11/xorg.conf that has the following snipped text included: ***Start of paste:*** Section "Monitor" Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool" DisplaySize 494 320 HorizSync 30-81 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER" Option "DPMS" Option "PreferredMode" "1024x600" VendorName "SAM" VertRefresh 43-75 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1680x1050" 119.00 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 EndSection *** End of paste *** In the Section "Monitor", the "PreferredMode" "1024x600" is set correctly, however further down the file in the Mode section the Modeline is wrong: Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1680x1050" 119.00 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 EndSection I'm thinking either to change the Nodeline to "1024x768" and deleting the rest of the line. Alternatively add a section "Modes, with an identifier of Modes(1) ie: Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[1]" Modeline "1024x768" EndSection AND then also change the UseModes entry in Section "Monitor" to UseModes "Modes[1]" *************************************************************. Complete Which is the better option or would both accomplish the same?
In 11.3, /etc/X11/xorg.conf may or may not produce expected results. If it doesn't, you'll need to try the files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/.
There are a few files there namely: 10-evdev.conf 11-mouse.conf 20-synaptics.conf 20-wacom.conf 50-device.conf 50-montor.conf 50-screen.conf 50-vmmouse.conf 60-vboxmouse.conf 90-keytable.conf None of the above files have anything in them mentioning resolution ie 1680x1024 etc. <snip>
Krandrtray is designed for temporary changes.
Thanks but also figured out given each time I logged on I needed to reset display :|
The auto default of 1680x1050 is your display's native 16:10 aspect ratio resolution. All lower resolutions it supports degrades output quality. "High resolution" is as its name implies - high quality.
Choosing 1024x768, a traditional 4:3 aspect ratio, not only lowers resolution, it lowers it out of proportion, causing everything to be distorted by stretching more in the horizontal direction (64%) than in the vertical direction (37%), making everything fatter than it should be.
As you said earlier, the joy of text being legible is better. Thankfully I have upgrade my viewing from the older 640x480 and 800x600. I also had a look at the man page for xorg.conf and it scared me. Regards Hylton -- ======================================================================== Hylton is a Lions Club member of Fish Hoek Lions Club(District 410A) Part of the worlds largest NGO Lions Clubs Int http://www.lionsclubs.org This Lion is using openSuSE Linux since v9.0 with KDE ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org