[wplug] Change resolution

[Henry Umansky]

First restart X server by pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Backspace" then login.  After 
you login press "Ctrl-Alt-+" (plus) to increase the resolution then try 
"Ctrl-Alt- -" (minus) to decrease the resolution.

-Henry

--On Tuesday, May 06, 2003 2:06 PM -0400 Arnaud Loos 
<aloos at InnovationsTech.com> wrote:r

> I'm having a small problem changing the resolution on my RH9 machine.
> It's an IBM thinkpad currently running at 800x600 with millions of
> colors. I'd like to change it to 1024x768 but that setting doesn't seem
> to stick. When logged in as root I change the settings and a message
> comes up saying that the new config has been written to
> /etc/X11/XF86Config and to please restart X. I log out and log back in
> but the settings are still at 800x600. I started thinking that maybe the
> video card couldn't handle the resolution so I changed the colors to
> thousands but still no change. Under advanced settings the card is an
> Intel 830 with 16MB Ram and the i810 driver, the monitor is unprobed.
> I also noticed that my XF86Config under section "screen" has a
> subsection "Display" with depths of 16 and 24. Under both depths the
> modes are "800x600" and "640x480". Are the modes listed here the only
> ones I can change my display to? I've tried adding "1024x768" but that
> didn't work either.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Arnaud-
>
>
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