From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 05:02:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA22445 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 05:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA22432 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 05:02:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id IAA12800; Fri, 24 May 1996 08:04:44 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199605241204.IAA12800@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: X Server To: abseil@thehub.com.au (Greg Laslett) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 08:04:42 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <01BB49B9.601CD3E0@dd04.thehub.com.au> from "Greg Laslett" at May 24, 96 09:38:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I recently installed X with conservative parameters on a machine > with a noname/no numbers 1mb vga card. When I start the VGA server > the windows are 'too big' to fit on the screen. I've tried the SVGA server > but the windows are even bigger again. The doco indicates that resolution > can be changed with Ctrl/Alt/KeyPad +/- but this seems to have no effect. > > a) how does one adjust screen resolution Hrm... did you use the xf86config program? Did you use the right parameters for your monitor? Does not sound like it. the / will work... but you need to be able to support more than one resolution.. Ie... 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 is what you can usually change between. Read the XF86_SVGA Man page for more details. You can try xvidtune also... read that man page as well BEFORE starting. > > b) is their any software that can tell me what this VGA card is pretending > to be ? Yep.. try the SuperProbe command. -branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson