Re: Laptop display settings

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Satish Balay wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andrew Robinson wrote:



I have Red Hat 9 installed on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. When booted into Linux, the best settings I get for the display are 800x600 resolution with what looks like 16-bit color. In Windoze, I can set the display to 1024x768 with 24-bit color. That's what I would like to get to in Linux as well. I tried changing a setting in an X configuration file that has worked for me in the past, but didn't seem to help this time. This is a process I don't understand well (to say the least). My display adapter is a NeoMagic MagicGraph256AV. All this leads me to ask three questions:

1. What settings do I make to get this laptop to work at 1024x768 resolution with 24-bit color?

2. Is there a tutorial someplace that explains what X settings to make given the parameters of a particular display adapter? In other words, is there a tutorial or how-to on how to set up X for a given display?

3. A co-worker once showed me a web site that listed parameters for many, many monitors and display adapters. Anyone know what that site might be?



The solution to this problem is to run 'redhat-config-xfree86' and change the 'Monitor' to 'Generic Laptop display panel 1024x758'. Now using the same tool - you can reset the resolution to 1024x758

Satish


That almost worked. For some reason, I wound up having to edit the XFree86 (?) file and add an entry for 1024x768 to the screen section. Then it worked. Thanks!

Know anything about the NIC problem I posted? ;)

Thanks for the help!

Andrew Robinson





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