On 1/27/06, Charlie O <obelin23 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I am running Slackware 10.1. I just got a new monitor, and am trying to > change the default screen res. > > I went in and edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and put in the new horizontal and > vertical refresh rates, and added the new, "1280x1024" to the Modes line for > each defined Display subsection. > > I have restarted the machine, several times by now. > > When I pull up KDE Control Center, the maximum screen res is the old > 1024x768. Running the command xdpyinfo shows the same. > > ----- > > The following two pieces are from the modified xorg.conf. I changed the > 'Modes' line on all the Display subsections. > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 1 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection You're default depth is 24 but you put the Modes line under the Depth 1 section. Copy that mode line and put in under the depth 24 section... see if that helps. Section "Monitor" > #DisplaySize 320 240 # mm > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Acer" > ModelName "AL1914b" > Option "DPMS" > HorizSync 24-80 > VertRefresh 49-75 > EndSection > > --------- > > I left the rest of xorg.conf the same. > > Can someone tell me what I'm missing? > > Thanks, > > Charlie O > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060127/da8f1fd6/attachment-0001.htm