On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:55:11PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Problem: Pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- (numeric) doesn't change my screen > resolution setting. X (with sawmill) always starts out in 1024 x 768 > with 16 bpp (65,000 colors) and I can't figure out how to change it. > > Background: For practice, I just installed X from scratch. I > configured the XF86Config file with xf86config. I've got 1 MB of > video ram on an S3 chipset. I set three resolution settings with the > program: 1024 x 768 at 8 bpp, 1024 x 768 at 16 bpp, and 800 x 600 at > 24 bpp. > > Question: How do I change monitor resolution/color depth in X? To put > it another way, how do I get CTRL-ALT-+/- to work?
Appears you only have one resolution per bit depth. X isn't able to switch between bit depths on the fly, so you have only one possible resolution for whatever bit depth X is running in... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
