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On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:54:51 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes: |
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> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need to |
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> >> learn about if it effects my longtime reliance on xorg.conf to keep |
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> >> using my huge desktops I like to use. For yrs I've |
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> >> used. |
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> >> |
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> >> Subsection "Display" |
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> >> Depth 24 |
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> >> Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" |
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> >> Virtual 2048 1536 |
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> >> ViewPort 0 0 |
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> >> EndSubsection |
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> >> EndSection |
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> >> |
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> >> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
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> >> To get a 2048x1536 desktop to flop around on. |
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> >> I've never seen or heard of a way to get that without using xorg.conf. |
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> > I think you would use xrandr to set it, or your desktop environment's |
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> > GUI settings panel (or equivalent). |
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> I may be using xrandr wrong but it doesn't do the trick used like |
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> this: |
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> I'm running an `emerge world' so didn't want to close down X so I used |
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> Ctrl-alt F1 to leave X and then Ctrl-alt F2 to login on a different |
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> virtual terminal. |
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> Then commented out the `Virtual' line in xorg.conf: |
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> EndSubsection |
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> Subsection "Display" |
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> Depth 24 |
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> Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" |
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> # Virtual 2048 1536 |
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> ViewPort 0 0 |
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> EndSubsection |
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> EndSection |
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> Then startx on a different display. |
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> startx -- :1 |
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> Once X is up: |
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> xrandr <no args> |
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> shows 1280x1024 as being the highest resolution. |
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> xrandr -s 2048x1536 shows: |
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> Size 2048x1536 not found in available modes |
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> The xfce display setting tool also shows 1280 as the highest possible |
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> setting. |
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> I've asked before where else this might be set... in more than 1 |
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> forum. I think you may find its not all that easy to set a Resolution |
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> way higher than your card supports. |
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Did you look at the man page for xrandr? |
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I think you need the "--fb" & "--panning" options. There is even an example |
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towards the end of the man page. |
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-- |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol |
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. |
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Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes. |
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