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 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 "ve

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 c

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 "dpkg-r

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 t

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

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 res

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 > resoluti