Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 07:47:50
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Got it1!


>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:40:07 -0400
>From: "E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Got it1!
>

>Isn't there a keystroke combination to have the libretto use a 
>"virtual-size
>desktop" when it has a > VGA resolution being fed to it?
>
>I can only see a little of the default Gnome desktop on my screen and it
>doesn't scroll when I go to the edge.
>

When you installed the video driver, you probably told it you had a default 
640*480 LCD screen - so that's what it's set up to use.

*X3.36 and friends only - not X4*
in /etc/X11/XF86config, right at the end, there's a section called "Screen" 
which has several subsections 'Display'
These will say something like:

Depth 8
Modes "640x480"
Viewport 0 0

and just before these will be a line that says

DefaultColorDepth 16 (or 8 or 24 or 32)

You need to add a line after the Viewport line in the colour depth you want 
to use to give the size of the virtual screen: for the 50/70 the maximum is 
640*480 in 24 bit, 800*600 in 16 or 15 bit, 1024*768 in 8 bit (yuck) - so I 
have:

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 800 600  <--- new line

and the default colour depth set to 16 so it wakes up with a scrolling 800 
by 600 window.

There are several different drivers it can use and I've never worked out 
which one works - so I put this in "svga" and "accel" and everything is 
happy.

I've posted my XF86Config in the recent past so it should be in the archive 
somewhere. I haven't got my pcmcia network card running yet so I can't post 
from the lib at present.

Note: things are different in X4.

Neil

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