[ILUG] Stupid X & Kde question

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:17:57AM -0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Justin MacCarthy thought:
> Hi,
> 	Can anyone tell me an esay way of changing X mode (ie 800 x 600 to 1024 x
> 768) from within KDE. Everything I've seen from googling says [ctrl] + [Alt]
> + [+] and [ctrl] + [Alt] + [-] but this seems to do nothing. My X86Config
> file has got the different modes defined. Where am I going wrong?

I presume you mean that you have lines of the form:

# 800x600 @ 100 Hz, 64.02 kHz hsync
Modeline  "800x600"    69.65  800  864  928 1088   600  604  610  640 -HSync -VSync

in the "Monitors" section of the XF86Config.  You also need to have the
modes you wish to use specified in the "Screen" section much like:

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "svga"
    # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
    #Device      "Generic VGA"
    Device      "My Video Card"
    Monitor     "VX700"
    DefaultColorDepth   16
    BlankTime 5
    OffTime 10
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16


        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600"
******* ^^^^^       ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^

        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

BTW, does anyone know why my "OffTime 10" line doesn't seem to work?  The
monitor will go to blank screen while at the (KDM or console) login screen but, 
once logged in, it'll just keep showing the screensaver forever.  I'm running 
RH70 with sawfish on Gnome with "use Power Management" selected and "shutdown 
monitor after 5 minutes".  Video card is a "Trident 3D Image 975 4Mb AGP".
Not exactly mainstream but seems to work well in general.  It has a driver
of its own for xfree-4 while it uses the XF86_SVGA driver in xfree-3 which
I'm running.

Conor
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