[lug] Screen res and modes

[Atkinson, Chip]

It's unlikely that you'll blow up a modern monitor, from what I've heard.
:-)
Usually it just goes black and the power/connection LED flashes.

You need to find which server you are running and look at that
configuration.  Once you get the appropriate modelines, you can switch
between the different resolutions by <ctl><alt><kp +> and <ctl><alt><kp ->
(kp being keypad).

When you type in X, you can see which type of server is being used by the
messages, such as S3 for example.  From there, you can trace down through
the file and find out which modelines section applies to the server.  

I can send you an example from home later today.

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Starkey [mailto:jstarkey at advancecreations.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 4:29 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Screen res and modes
> 
> 
> Hello again.
> 
> I've been thru the archives looking for an answer to this and 
> I only found
> some old threads about setting screen res in general.
> 
> Last night on a fresh install I had everything working great except I
> couldn't get out of 1280x1024. So I tried to do a reinstall and
> specify 1024x768 as the default but that didn't work. Now I'm stuch
> with 800x600 and can't even get 1280x1024 back. My luck.
> 
> I've been all through the XF86Config trying multiple things but I keep
> getting "No valid modes found". I assume it's referring to 
> the ModeLine
> statements in the monitor section. I'd prefer not to blow up 
> the monitor
> so I'm hesitent to make any changes to the sync data.
> 
> Anyone know what I can do. I know 1280 worked, why can't it find a
> modeline for that atleast?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John 
> 
> 
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