From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 09:26:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C9037B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail8.kc.rr.com (mail8.kc.rr.com [24.94.162.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6C143FCB for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:26:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from riksca@kc.rr.com) Received: from gruffy.kc.rr.com ([65.28.7.164]) by mail8.kc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:27:22 -0500 Received: from gruffy.kc.rr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gruffy.kc.rr.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h5HGQc70065789; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:26:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from riksca@gruffy.kc.rr.com) Received: (from riksca@localhost) by gruffy.kc.rr.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.6/Submit) id h5HGQcsb065788; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:26:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:26:37 -0500 From: Rik Scarborough To: Kenneth Culver Message-ID: <20030617162637.GA46763@gruffy.kc.rr.com> Mail-Followup-To: Kenneth Culver , FreeBSD Questions References: <20030617161608.GA18877@gruffy.kc.rr.com> <20030617121721.G4828-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030617121721.G4828-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Nvidia resolution problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:26:40 -0000 On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Does your monitor support higher resolutions? If you have an old monitor, > did you put proper values in the monitor section of your XF86Config? It's a new flat screen monitor. I've pretty much ignored that, taking the values from the setup and concentrated on the driver. I'll take a look at that. ~Rik > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Rik Scarborough wrote: > > > I cannot get the resolution for X above 800x600 (although I'm not sure, > > it could be one smaller than that). The main problem is I can't see all > > the dialogs for KDE; they won't fit on the screen. > > > > I've upgraded the box to FreeBSD 4.8 release. I've uninstalled and > > reinstalled XFree86 to the latest ports (the overall port is > > XFree86-4.3.0,1). I'm using the driver from the ports. > > > > the Display section has the following modes: > > "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > > > Any ideas on how to increase the resolution? > > > > Thanks, > > > > ~Rik