Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 9:23 pm, Warren Post wrote: El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 07:02, Anne Wilson escribió: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus sign and Ctrl-Alt-minus sign are what you want, I think. It turned out that the wrong monitor setting was causing the problem. I chose a better match, and all is now working correctly. Thanks to all Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
Am Sam, 2002-11-16 um 19.10 schrieb Derek Jennings: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:28:52 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul -- How odd - but it is on. Anne Clt+Alt+ 'keypad +/-' rotates among all the screen definitions defined in your XF86Config-4 file. If when you did your recent install you selected a monitor with only one resolution, then obviously you will not be able to rotate resolutions. (Oh and it only works in KDE) It works fine with Gnome, too. Why did you reinstall anyway? That is Windows thinking derek Matthias Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:40, Matthias R. Fischer wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul -- How odd - but it is on. Anne Clt+Alt+ 'keypad +/-' rotates among all the screen definitions defined in your XF86Config-4 file. If when you did your recent install you selected a monitor with only one resolution, then obviously you will not be able to rotate resolutions. (Oh and it only works in KDE) It works fine with Gnome, too. derek Matthias Dang - I still can't get it to work with XP... -- Sun Nov 17 21:20:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. -- Evan Davis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On 17 Nov 2002 21:21:51 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dang - I still can't get it to work with XP... Um, You may have a problem getting THAT to work! I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oh, I thought XP means Xtra Problems. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
Dang - I still can't get it to work with XP... Um, You may have a problem getting THAT to work! I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!! -- In the case of Winblows I thought it was for Xtra Pay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 03:14, John Richard Smith wrote: I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!! Oh, I thought XP means Xtra Problems. eXtraneous Problems. BTW, I can get the CTRL/ALT/+ to work in XP - but I'm running RH 7.3 in a VMWare window when I do it! (g) -- Mon Nov 18 06:45:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 If you are too busy to read, then you are too busy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 07:02, Anne Wilson escribió: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus sign and Ctrl-Alt-minus sign are what you want, I think. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Changing display resolution
What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:02:27 +: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul -- The best mirror is an old friend. -Anon. http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.6 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 1:25 pm, you wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:02:27 +: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... - that's what I thought - doesn't seem to work. And MCC doesn't want to test my monitor, either. Ah well, I want to get on with installing 9.0 so perhaps I'll just put up with it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... - that's what I thought - doesn't seem to work. And MCC doesn't want to test my monitor, either. Ah well, I want to get on with installing 9.0 so perhaps I'll just put up with it. Anne Do you have numlock on? I believe it needs to be -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... - that's what I thought - doesn't seem to work. And MCC doesn't want to test my monitor, either. Ah well, I want to get on with installing 9.0 so perhaps I'll just put up with it. Anne Do you have numlock on? I believe it needs to be How odd - but it is on. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Saturday November 16 2002 10:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Do you have numlock on? I believe it needs to be How odd - but it is on. Anne That is odd. OK, try 'XFdrake' (in a term, as root). That'll give you a GUI to change resolution, among other things. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 4:48 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 10:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Do you have numlock on? I believe it needs to be How odd - but it is on. Anne That is odd. OK, try 'XFdrake' (in a term, as root). That'll give you a GUI to change resolution, among other things. That made no difference either. Just as when used from MCC, asking it to Test Again results in it immediately moving on the 'Do you want X when you login?'. It's funny, since I re-installed some things run so much better than they did (for instance Mozilla doesn't have problems on Amazon's site, which it did before) and others, like this, just don't work at all. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:28:52 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... - that's what I thought - doesn't seem to work. And MCC doesn't want to test my monitor, either. Ah well, I want to get on with installing 9.0 so perhaps I'll just put up with it. Anne Do you have numlock on? I believe it needs to be How odd - but it is on. Anne Clt+Alt+ 'keypad +/-' rotates among all the screen definitions defined in your XF86Config-4 file. If when you did your recent install you selected a monitor with only one resolution, then obviously you will not be able to rotate resolutions. (Oh and it only works in KDE) Why did you reinstall anyway? That is Windows thinking derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 6:10 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:28:52 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... - that's what I thought - doesn't seem to work. And MCC doesn't want to test my monitor, either. Ah well, I want to get on with installing 9.0 so perhaps I'll just put up with it. Anne Do you have numlock on? I believe it needs to be How odd - but it is on. Anne Clt+Alt+ 'keypad +/-' rotates among all the screen definitions defined in your XF86Config-4 file. If when you did your recent install you selected a monitor with only one resolution, then obviously you will not be able to rotate resolutions. (Oh and it only works in KDE) I did have a problem with monitor install (but not when I installed before). It kept telling me that I had 85MHz refresh, which it can't handle, so I had to try to convince it to take something else. Maybe I chose wrongly. It's difficult to tell, as when you call up the whateverDrake it always highlights the monitor setting that it had originally (when it was wrong) and, incidentally, so far as I know that was what it had before IYSWIM. Maybe I've got a wrong monitor setting, then. Why did you reinstall anyway? That is Windows thinking derek No, not really. I didn't really want to, but I had a rather messy hdd layout, over three disks, one of which is only 4Gb, so you can guess how old it is. I still have to dual-boot, because there are some windows apps I really need. (I'm going for win4lin soon, so we'll see what that does) Since I want to put 9.0 on, I decided that my disks needed a thorough clean out. I've backed up everything I can, recorded all the images, etc., in the hope of getting a windows install for the very few apps I still need, 8.2 until I've got any 9.0 problems sorted (I'm a little alarmed at some of the posts about hardware not cooperating) and a new 9.0 install - all on my 2 x 20Gb hdds. I wouldn't have bothered if it hadn't needed such a clean-out to give me a chance to get 3 OSs onto the 2 hdds. Now if I can fool the family into thinking I'm not here tomorrow, I'll go for it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
In reply to Derek's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:10:07 +: Clt+Alt+ 'keypad +/-' rotates among all the screen definitions defined in your XF86Config-4 file. If when you did your recent install you selected a monitor with only one resolution, then obviously you will not be able to rotate resolutions. (Oh and it only works in KDE) Also works in XFCE... Indeed, I had not mentioned that the + and - should be used from the keypad. My mistake... Paul -- The best mirror is an old friend. -Anon. http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.6 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 6:32 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 00:02, Anne Wilson wrote: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Anne CTRL+ALT+ + or - I'm beginning to think that I have a wrong monitor setting. When I re-installed I got the blue patch telling me that 85GHz refresh was not good for my monitor's health. I had to choose another model to make it go away - and I think maybe I chose the wrong one. Does MCC display always default to one particular setting highlighted whatever is selected? I'm sure the highlighted entry is the one that it had originally, and certain that that is what I chose when I reinstalled. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
