On Saturday 05 October 2002 12:01, zentara wrote: [...]
Well you can edit your XF86Config file in /etc/X11 but you will need to adjust the modelines if you want to change resolutions. That is hard. You will need to research what modelines are available for that resolution. A google search might help.
Apparently, I'm STILL not understanding... As I mentioned, I *already* have modelines for 1152x864 (nine of them, actually), and the system seems to be ignoring all of them. So, I don't understand what good it would do for me to create additional modelines at higher resolution, for the system to ignore. Here are a couple of sample Modelines from my existing file: Modeline "1152x864" 77.55 1152 1168 1384 1568 864 864 871 902 Modeline "1152x864" 90.48 1152 1168 1384 1568 864 864 873 902 Modeline "1152x864" 103.40 1152 1168 1384 1568 864 864 874 902 (and six more for 1152x864) Modeline "1024x768" 61.19 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 775 802 Modeline "1024x768" 132.59 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 786 802 (and seven more for 1024x768) Given the results, all of the "1152x864" lines are ignored, yes? When I read the XF86Config man page, I seem to have missed the command that says: "Make the bastard pay attention to modeline such'n'such." Did I miss a switch or variable that I can tweak?
If you just want to adjust your refresh rate youn can change the vertical refresh to a higher number without much problem. Change 50-60 to 50-75.
Well, the only line that mentions "refresh" at all, is in Section "Monitor", and it says: VertRefresh 30-160 So, I think a vertical refresh rate of 75 or 85 is already well covered in that range, don't you? Or, is there some *other* line I should be looking for. Can I just add in lines, willy-nilly? Won't they conflict with the ones that are already in the XF86Config file that SaX2 generated, and that I've been quoting, here?
You can also try to use Sax , not Sax2, or even the old xf86config, which is a text-mode setup for X11, and is the grandfather of them all.
In more than one mailing list (and some FAQs also, I think...) people have said "Do NOT use old SaX on version 4 of X. SaX2 is for version 4. Old SaX is for version 3.x and will give you more grief than you can imagine if you try to use it to configure 4.x" ... or words to that effect. I tried it once, last year, when I was running SuSE 7.3, and I had to reload everything-X from CDs, using textmode YaST. If there are no other suggestions, then can somebody tell me if SaX2 has gotten any smarter with SuSE 8.1? /kevin