I'm going to shoot X!!!

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eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:38 pm

My resolution in XF86Config-4 won't stay. When I first changed it to 1024x768 and rebooted I still was in 1280x1024. The next day, to my suprise, I turn on the computer and 1024x768. Jumpin' jahosaflat, yee'haw! But, if I reboot or restart X, it changes back to 1280x1024. Once this happens I have to wait till tommarow for my resolution to go back to 1024x768. Rebooting or powering off and back on does nothing.
EDIT: Come to think about it, whatever was happening, was happening even before I did the resolution change. Because only the first time I ran X in a given day my fonts were larger than all the rest of the times in that day.

ap viper · Post by **ap viper** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:29 am

post the screen section of you /etc/X11/XF86Config file

Frodg · Post by **Frodg** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:29 am

If you edit the xf86Config file and remove any reference to 1280x1024 you should be left with a mximum resolution you desire.....

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:42 am

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# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# 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  "Screen0"
    Device      "ATI Graphics Adapter"
    Monitor     "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    #Option "backingstore"

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0  # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
#        Virtual     1280 1024
    EndSubsection
EndSection

I did. Thats XF86Config-4 btw not XF86Config, I don't have one.

supertechmyers · Post by **supertechmyers** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:45 am

I had the same problem using the generic ATI Radeon driver. I fixed it by doing a emerge ati-driver restarting and generating a X config file by typing fglrxconfig.

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:50 am

but thats how i got my radeon working in the first place

krinkle · Post by **krinkle** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:46 am

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    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0  # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
#        Virtual     1280 1024
    EndSubsection
EndSection

try changing

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Modes       "1024x768"

to

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Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768"

kalisphoenix · Post by **kalisphoenix** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:09 am

This is, quite possibly, the first time I've ever heard of someone complaining that X put them in too *high* a resolution.

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:46 pm

krinkle wrote: try changing
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Modes       "1024x768"
to
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Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768"

Why the hell would I want to do that? Then even the first time I startx in a given day I will have "1280x1024". I want "1024x768"! This peice of crap replacement monitor is only 15 inches and exteremely blurry. Stupid trinitron crapped out on me.

ikaro · Post by **ikaro** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:02 pm

try this.

# 1024x768 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 60.15 kHz; pclk: 81.80 MHz
Modeline "1024x768" 81.80 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 802 -HSync +Vsync

nephros · Post by **nephros** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:44 pm

if you set the "Virtual" option, X will throw away any modes that are larger than your virtual screen.
So this should work:

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 Subsection "Display" 
        Depth       24 
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "640x400"
        ViewPort    0 0  # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop 
        Virtual     1024 768 
    EndSubsection 
EndSection

(It's always good to have some standard modes for lower reolutions around for fullscreen apps like video players and games.)

Oh, and X leaves a fairly verbose log in /var/log/XFree.0.log. Useful to get hints for problems such as this, especially if you "startx -- -logverbose 5"

krinkle · Post by **krinkle** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:53 pm

eug2k wrote:
krinkle wrote: try changing
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Modes       "1024x768"
to
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Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768"
Why the hell would I want to do that? Then even the first time I startx in a given day I will have "1280x1024". I want "1024x768"! This peice of crap replacement monitor is only 15 inches and exteremely blurry. Stupid trinitron crapped out on me.

oh, haha, my bad . Misread your post, sorry about that. was just trying to post real quick before i had to leave for school

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:41 am

The modeline doesn't affect anything. And the virtual things makes it like 1024x768 but I dont see the whole screen. I have to pan around the viewable area. If I look at my monitor menu it says that its at 1280x1024, so basically it is just zooming in on a 1024x768 section of a 1280x1024 resolution. BTW I just emerged ati-drivers 3.7.6 and fglrxconfig'd and that did nothing.

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:45 pm

bump it up!

eug2k · Post by **eug2k** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:28 pm

nobody?