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#1 2004-03-11 05:32:48

ExcessiveForce
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Registered: 2003-12-13
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Higher resolution in KDE?

When I try to change my resolution in KDE 3.2 it won't go any higher than 1024x768. What do I need to do to change this?

Forgive me if my questions are general--I'm quite the newbie, and I couldn't get an answer via the search method. hmm


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#2 2004-03-11 05:49:08

alcattle
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Re: Higher resolution in KDE?

I am not much beyond you in Linux knowledge, I think your resolution is set by X as in Xfree86. That can be changed to suit your monitor and video card. KDE jsut uses the availible modes.


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#3 2004-03-11 06:35:59

ExcessiveForce
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Re: Higher resolution in KDE?

Here's what I've got in my xf86Config...

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

# Standard VGA Device:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Standard VGA"
    VendorName  "Unknown"
    BoardName   "Unknown"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases.  It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.

#    Chipset    "generic"

# The Driver line must be present.  When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module.  Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.

    Driver     "vga"

# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for.  When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device.  For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used.  This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.

#    BusID      "PCI:0:10:0"

#    VideoRam   256

#    Clocks     25.2 28.3

EndSection

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "** NVIDIA (generic)                   [nv]"
    Driver      "nv"
    #VideoRam    131072
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# 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  "Screen 1"
    Device      "** NVIDIA (generic)                   [nv]"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Am I missing something here?


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#4 2004-03-11 07:03:38

Bobonov
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Registered: 2003-05-07
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Re: Higher resolution in KDE?

Resolution is a mix of graphic card capacity and montor capacity.
Both of them have to support the resolution you want to use.
How is your monitor section?

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#5 2004-03-11 07:18:32

ExcessiveForce
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Re: Higher resolution in KDE?

When I initially installed the resolution was set at 1600x. I forgot what was changed that wouldn't allow me to change it back. I know the resolution is possible, but actually getting it seems to be another story.


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#6 2004-03-11 07:37:13

Bobonov
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Re: Higher resolution in KDE?

Your xserver should start with default depth 24 and there we find that  your primary mode should be 1280x1024

   Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection

So it seem that you xserver fall back the the second available mode 1024x768
Try to look to your /var/log/xfree86.log and see if there is any error when it try to set   1280x1024
Another note is that if you do not add more resolution to the Modes line you can't use them. Under kde there should be also a graphical gui to switch the resolution.

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#7 2004-03-11 15:47:06

ExcessiveForce
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Re: Higher resolution in KDE?

KDE has several resolution settings in the GUI that I can pick from but maxes out at 1024x. My X server is set with a default of 24. Hmm...

Also, I cannot locate the xfree86.log


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#8 2004-03-11 16:23:11

Bobonov
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From: Roma - Italy
Registered: 2003-05-07
Posts: 295

Re: Higher resolution in KDE?

Ooops!
I made a typo
/var/log/XFree86.0.log
here is the location for the log.

Anyway I think some part of your configuration is missing.
You can try to download and install hwd
http://amlug.net/new-projects/hwd/hwd.html
It will detect your hardware and create a configuration file for Xfree.
Try to use it and see what happen.

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