Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-04-06 Thread Bob
Sanjaya Vitharana wrote: Hi All, Just trying to move my home desktop to Debian from Windows. As initial stage I'm trying with dual boot until I get used to Debian. But the problem is with gdm Display Properties. I can't get expected quality for 1024 x 768 resolution as my Windows did. For

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-24 Thread Sanjaya Vitharana
I suspect that your monitor doesn't actually have a horizontal sync of 30 to 54, it's just wrong on the web site. Why don't you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg again, and this time instead of picking Advanced to specify the numbers directly, choose Medium and pick A monitor that can do

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/24/08, Sanjaya Vitharana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selecting 1024 x 768 75 Hz choosing Medium will end up with 1024 x 768 60 Hz. Now Desktop-Preferences-Screen Resolution has only 60 Hz option in dropdown for 1024 x 768. Blast it. Try installing gvidm, too. Try using the vesa driver,

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-23 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Sanjaya Vitharana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not accurate. Your display's vertical refresh is 50-120 Hz, not 50-160. Thanks, I found the correct one as. http://www.viewsonic.com/support/desktopdisplays/crtmonitors/e2series/e50c/index.htm I have tried with

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Sanjaya Vitharana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just trying to move my home desktop to Debian from Windows. As initial stage I'm trying with dual boot until I get used to Debian. But the problem is with gdm Display Properties. I can't get expected quality for 1024 x 768 resolution as

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-21 Thread Sanjaya Vitharana
You're doing great. Thanks Are you sure you restarted X after modifying /etc/X11/xorg.conf? No I don't restart the X. Even I didn't know that could be done after changing xorg.conf without restarting the PC. (X server must be restarted entirely after reboot) What I did is, just

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 21 March 2008 07:00:33 am Sanjaya Vitharana wrote: You're doing great. Thanks Are you sure you restarted X after modifying /etc/X11/xorg.conf? No I don't restart the X. Even I didn't know that could be done after changing xorg.conf without restarting the PC. (X server must be

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Sanjaya Vitharana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading this mail I tried to start the X using startx (instead of gdm) it directly loged me as a root. But same effect, it only shows me 60/87 Hz for 1024 x 768 and previous problems are there. Yeah, startx is better for testing.