From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 5:35:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8B2437B409 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 05:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17254 invoked from network); 18 May 2002 12:35:09 -0000 Received: from userhh092.dsl.pipex.com (HELO ThisAddressDoesNotExist) (62.190.215.92) by smtp-2.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 18 May 2002 12:35:09 -0000 Subject: Re: How do I set the resolution for a new monitor? From: "S. Roberts" Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: Jonathan Chen Cc: FreeBSD-Questions In-Reply-To: <20020519001359.A30452@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <1021670265.751.6.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20070518013752.GA25364@altair.mukappabeta.net> <1021687406.306.10.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20070518040119.GA37439@altair.mukappabeta.net> <1021720239.306.27.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20020519001359.A30452@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rQ/kra4saDX3hIYSxwGC" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 18 May 2002 13:30:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1021725039.306.29.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 --=-rQ/kra4saDX3hIYSxwGC Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dude thanks for that. Just included that line, restarting X now. Let you know how it turns out. Stacey On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 13:13, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:10:38PM +0100, S. Roberts wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the advice. > >=20 > > I looked at those sections in /etc/XF86Config, but there isn't a field = / > > variable called "DefaultDepth" anywhere that I can set to our suggested > > values. >=20 > You *add* the field. Right about here: >=20 > [...] > > Section "Screen" > > Driver "accel" > > Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98" > > Monitor "Sun 21 inch" > DefaultDepth 24 > [...] >=20 > --=20 > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, > specialisation is for insects" >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer --=-rQ/kra4saDX3hIYSxwGC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dude thanks for that. Just included that line, restarting X now. Let you know how it turns out. Stacey On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 13:13, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:10:38PM +0100, S. Roberts wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the advice. > >=20 > > I looked at those sections in /etc/XF86Config, but there isn't a field = / > > variable called "DefaultDepth" anywhere that I can set to our suggested > > values. >=20 > You *add* the field. Right about here: >=20 > [...] > > Section "Screen" > > Driver "accel" > > Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98" > > Monitor "Sun 21 inch" > DefaultDepth 24 > [...] >=20 > --=20 > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, > specialisation is for insects" >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPOZJbfdn4A8qiCO5EQKDCQCgq/DfVxP5zdUwc7YUqqvPCJMrzfAAoLCS 9LZV1pfvcFncc2iMY9qW7c/W =5p2q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rQ/kra4saDX3hIYSxwGC-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message