From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 1:23:34 2003 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 C47C437B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:23:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAE643F75 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:23:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nxmg-000025-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:23:26 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nxmQ-00001w-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:23:12 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nxmM-0005xl-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:23:06 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18nxmL-0004qY-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:23:05 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: "LEE TIAM KEAN" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to set virtual screen smaller than physical screen Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:23:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302261123.05318.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18nxmQ-00001w-00*7AjUTp0AYX2* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:20, someone, possibly LEE TIAM KEAN, typed: > Hi, > i'm a beginner in Freebsd. I've set up x windows successfully but i found > that the screen is larger than my monitor. i've tried the xf86config > again by answering no when prompted with "Want virtual screen larger than > physical screen?". it still unsuccessful. Any other thing that i've > missed out? I'm using version 4.7 of the FreeBSD. Thanks Try configuring it with XFree86 -configure Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message