Guest SDMF Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 I just installed Slackware 9 on another hard drive, and I am having trouble with getting X to run at 1280x1024. Here is the screen section of my XF86Config: # Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes # the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section # may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen" # option. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "VESA Framebuffer" Monitor "My Monitor" # If your card can handle it, a higher default color depth (like 24 or 32) # is highly recommended. # DefaultDepth 8 # DefaultDepth 16 DefaultDepth 24 # DefaultDepth 32 # "1024x768" is also a conservative usable default resolution. If you # have a better monitor, feel free to try resolutions such as # "1152x864", "1280x1024", "1600x1200", and "1800x1400" (or whatever your # card/monitor can produce) Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection EndSection I edited it and inserted the "1280x1024" for each color depth. However, when I restart X, I am still at 1024x768. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thule2manden Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 I just installed Slackware 9 EndSection[/code] This is a Mandrake forum. Maybe you'll have some luck in a Slackware forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Now now thule, be civil. This may be Mandrake Users Board, but questions regarding other distro are welcome here. After all, it's all linux. Although I think that since this question is about slackware, it should be moved to Other Distro section. Let me just move it over there and everything should be hunky dory. Anyway, regarding your problem.. do you think that the device you are using (Vesa Frame Buffer) support 1280x1024 resolution? Or maybe the driver support it? What kind of video card and monitor do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Well the Vesa Framebuffer thing was put there by the slackware install. I have an ATI Radeon 7200 vid card and a ViewSonic A75s monitor. Both support 1280x1024. XF86Config editing is not something I have had a lot of experience with. Is there something else I should be using in the Device section? Edit: I found some info on creating device entries, I will try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fubar::chi Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Well the Vesa Framebuffer thing was put there by the slackware install. I have an ATI Radeon 7200 vid card and a ViewSonic A75s monitor. Both support 1280x1024. XF86Config editing is not something I have had a lot of experience with. Is there something else I should be using in the Device section? Edit: I found some info on creating device entries, I will try that. vesa doesn't support greater than 1024x7678 afaik unless the boys and girls over at X central have been doing some overtime recemtly. The slack install probably chose that so that you'd get something when X started. you need to change the driver to whatever the radeon uses. ati ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fubar::chi Posted May 15, 2003 Report Share Posted May 15, 2003 and the name of that driver is <drumroll please> radeon! (without the exclamation point) ::Speech:: First off i'd like to thank all the people who made this possible. DragonMage, couldn't have remembered without you man. Also everyone in the Hardware forum should get a big round of applause ... thank you :mystilol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted May 15, 2003 Report Share Posted May 15, 2003 Yeah, I got it working about a day ago, I just hadn't been able to make it back here until now. Thanks for your help, everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 17, 2003 Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 Posting guidelines broken..... SDMF's problem solved..... LOCKED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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