From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 7:51: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C8D37B97C for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 07:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp2-pa5.neomedia.it [195.103.207.114]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA13646; Sun, 21 May 2000 16:50:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 15:53:14 GMT Message-ID: <20000521.15531400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: KDE Reconfig or Reinstall? To: "Mark A. Hummel" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3927E246.B68E3E18@ispchannel.com> References: <3927E246.B68E3E18@ispchannel.com> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 5/21/00, 2:19:02 PM, "Mark A. Hummel" wrote=20 regarding KDE Reconfig or Reinstall?: > Hi, > I installed KDE during the FBSD install. Since Xfree86 failed twice, = I > used Xconfig and was able to finish. The challenge now is that KDE > comes up in low 640 x 480 resolution and Ctrl-Alt-+ does not change=20 the > resolution. Is there a way to increase the resolution and color=20 depth? > If not, should I reconfigure KDE (and if so, how) or would it be=20 better > to uninstall/reinstall KDE (and if so, how). > Mark Dear Mark Hummel, I had a similar problem, ie screen resolution far from being=20 satisfactory in Xfree86-3.3.x=20 The short answer is "yes, you can set what ever resolution your=20 monitor is able to support". Drawback: you have to hack modelines if=20 you want to get that optimum performance. At least, if your monitor's=20 data are NOT contained in some database or other. Instead, if your=20 monitor IS found in some database, you will just copy the modelines=20 into /etc/XF86Config. BTW, my screen "rendering" is just splendid at (!!) 1152x870@83Hz=20 (personally hacked modelines) on my 17" monitor -- a practically=20 **unknown** make and model. =20 There is material on this topic out there, both on the Net and of ...=20 hardcopy nature. As to the latter, AFAIR, Grog's excellent guide (The=20 Complete FreeBSD) includes some stuff about this "magic"; as to the=20 former, there is some tutorial(s) around (for Linux ? Howto ?=20 Mini-howto ?), I can't recall right now **sigh** Good luck, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message