Kde2: set screen resolution

[Yun Zhou]

On Friday 03 January 2003 12:49 pm, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> My distro is debian 3.0 with a 2.4 kernel.
> I think there's a problem with the video card driver. At this moment I use
> the driver "vga" because the driver "nv" doesn't work.
>
> When I set XF86Config to use 1024x768 at 24-bit mode x-server doesn't
> start. When I set to use 8-bit mode with a resolution 1024x768 the x-server
> starts but in the resolution 640x400.
>
> Kind regards,
> Willem-Jan Meijer
> Netherlands
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: kde-admin at mail.kde.org [mailto:kde-admin at mail.kde.org] Namens Yun Zhou
> Verzonden: vrijdag 3 januari 2003 19:57
> Aan: kde at mail.kde.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [kde] Kde2: set screen resolution
>
> On Friday 03 January 2003 12:34 pm, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed debian woody with xfree86 and KDE
> > My video card is a Geforce 4 MX 420 and my monitor is a Hyundai LM1500A
> >
> > The only resolution which is working here is 640x400 and 8 bits colours.
> > How do I change this so that I can work well with KDE?
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Willem-Jan Meijer
> > Netherlands
> >
> >
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> It isn't a problem with KDE, it's a problem with the X server. Try fiddling
> around with the options in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, or if it's not
> there, try /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config. There's more help about this at
> www.xfree.org and many other sites. What is your distribution? Most distros
> include a utility to configure the X server so you don't have to edit the
> configuration file directly.
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Since you're using an Nvidia card, there are propietary drivers avaliable for 
X, as the X server Nv, so I've heard, is actually a dummy, as most distros 
aren't allowed to include the binaries in their distro. 

They are avaliable at the Nvidia site - www.nvidia.com
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