From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 10:29:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.netidea.com (everest.netidea.com [207.194.161.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F9F14DCE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gregm@netidea.com) Received: from Main (pm162-54.dialup.netidea.com [207.194.162.54]) by everest.netidea.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA14009; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:27:33 -0800 Message-Id: <199903311827.KAA14009@everest.netidea.com> From: gregm@netidea.com To: "Justin Cushman" Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:30:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: X-windows Resolution Reply-To: gregm@netidea.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <37024B1F.2F00CB82@dsccc.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just worked through this myself ... If you've already configure the server (XF86Config or XF86Setup) and can't ctrl+alt+numpad (+ or -) to another resolution you might try running XF86Setup and choosing a lower color resolution in the monitor mode selection. It's what it took for me to accomplish it (also in 2.2.6 but a desktop). Good luck, Greg Martin gregm@netidea.com > I have FreeBSD 2.2.6 running on a Dell laptop and I have loaded and > configured X-windows but the resolution is defaulting to something like > 300X204 so everything is very large and undefined. I can not figure out > how to get it changed to a better resolution. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Justin Cushman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message