From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 16: 5:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nameserver.austclear.com.au (nameserver.austclear.com.au [192.83.119.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5181E37B719 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.70.1]) by nameserver.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA82344; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:05:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.70.1]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00553; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:05:44 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200104012305.JAA00553@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "ScaryG" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xwindows - getting better than 640x480 In-Reply-To: Message from "ScaryG" of "Sun, 01 Apr 2001 17:29:29 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 09:05:44 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG scaryg@sputnik.org said: > I'm happy to say that after a couple days of compiling and upgrading, > I have Xfree 3.3.6 running with Gnome 1.2 > Problem is.. I'm trapped in 640x480 mode! > How can I get to 800x600? > I've checked the config and it shows my Mach64 video card, 2 megs of > ram, various mode, correct monitor type. > >From what I've read, I should be able to press CTRL+ALT+Numberpad + > or - to flip through the video modes... > That isn't working for me at all. > Let me admit that this keyboard is old... perhaps it isn't sending the > correct stuff back? I'm not an expert on this, but this is what happened to me... I had similar experiences trying to get my X-windows to work with my nVidia GeForce2 MX and a Gateway 2000 monitor (using XFree86 4.0.2). What seemed to be happening was that in startup it was rejecting a number of the modes because they didn't match the pre-configured VESA specs (which I couldn't find a list of). However, in my case that resulted in it coming up at 1920x, and 256 colours. What I eventually worked out was that for each bit-depth it has a list of resolutions that go into the list for the CTRL+ALT+Numpad[+|-]. In my case, there was only the one resolution, which I assume is what's happening to you. Eventually I went down to the "Screen" section and added a mode I'd written to the list for 24 bits, restarted X (with 24 bits), and there it was. I'm still trying to find the time to write to Gateway to get a better list of modes than the one in the manual so I can submit a complete monitor definition. Hope that's SOME help... Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message