From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 18 11:06:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05458 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 11:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spacehog.structured.net (ppp-dialup12.sns-access.com [206.58.222.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05453 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 11:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spacehog.structured.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spacehog.structured.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03410; Sun, 18 May 1997 10:44:24 GMT Message-ID: <337EDD88.88B0023@spacehog.structured.net> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 10:44:24 +0000 From: Justin Ashworth Reply-To: ashworth@cs.montana.edu Organization: Pretty cruddy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b3C (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Presser CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XF86 Default Screen Resolution? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <3.0.1.32.19970518123305.006fc878@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ken Presser wrote: > > With all of the configuration options for XF86 I am having trouble deciding > which is the "best" way to change the default resolution when I run startx. > What with XF86Config, startx, .xinitrc, .Xresources, etc. there are a lot > of places to change things. In your /etc/XF86Config, edit the "Modes" line for the 8-bit option on your video card. It should read something like --> Modes "800x600" "1152x864" "1024x768" <-- Or whatever order you would like the different resolutions to come up in when you cycle through them with CTRL-ALT-. Note: There are a lot default settings in this file, be sure you edit the correct section. > Also, anyone know how to speed up the mouse a little? It's a PS/2 and > needs a little acceleration in XF86. Put a line in your .xinitrc (or .xsession if you use xdm) that reads something like "xset m 4". You can replace that 4 with any number you want. The higher the number, the faster the acceleration. Good luck. - Justin Ashworth, Intern -- Structured Network Systems, Inc. --- justin@structured.net