Thanks Phill It would appear what you said is totally correct. I had a feeling it was probably the case, which is why I burnt the knoppix cd I downloaded overnight. I booted with knoppix then copied the config it created. Plonked this on debian and bang she works.. and its the freq stuff per res that is different or atleast in the new config.
All good now.. However it appears I ran out of space on /usr. Time for a reinstall via the netinst again. Ah well.. will let it run while I am out most of the day.. thank goodness for local free mirrors and broadband :) Thanks On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 02:12:22 +1000, Phill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a similar problem with mandrake. It was a while ago so I'll see if I > remember it right. I have 3 monitors and monitors 1 & 2 were OK but 3 > always came out at 640 x 480 regardless of what I did. After months > (literally) I found the following solution > > The way I fixed it was to insert the monitor freq as it was missing for > monitor 3 in the monitor section > > Eg 1024, 768 @ 60hZ, 31.5 kHz hsync > > And I had to set the monitor type to a fixed generic type > Eg 1024 x 768 > > Please note that I am going from memory and you will need to check the > syntax for correctness > > hth!! > > Regards Phill > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Michael Fox > Sent: Saturday, 9 October 2004 12:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] Help... xfree86 is doing my head in :) > > Well I've never been a good xfree86 configure person, probably good > since I always had headless machines. > > I took the plunge tonight and did a netinstall of debian sarge and I > must say I am very very impressed with the changes. Being a debian fan > for a long time now, I liked what I saw. The install went good and > since I am trying to get a desktop machine going, as I want to run > vmware to put a windows session into. But before I do this I needed to > get X windows going. > > The finished install asked a few questions and I answered. At the end > I got a working X windows session, except the resolution is max > 800x600 and its most fustrating. I did a vi of XF86Config-4 and added > the 1280x1024 res I wanted with the default depth of 24. > > No matter what I do, I just can't get my X windows session to do any > res other then 800x600.. The res changer tool in gnome or kde will > only show me 800x600 and 640x480. Its most fustrating.. grr. > > My monitor is a Benq 737s LCD, and my graphics card is a Nvidia > Geforce4 mx with 64mb of ram. > > I'd love to have my X windows on this Debian Sarge install as good as > the res and depth given to me on a Fedora Core 2 install. ie. need to > run 1280x1024 native res. > > Anyone care to help me out? I did a google and various other things > but I just cant come up with the goods. I am currently downloading > knoppix to see what sort of config it produces when I boot with it. > Althought that won't be available until later. > > If someone could help, please drop us a email with some suggestions. > And I will try them when I get up tomorrow or through the day/evening > as time permits. IN the meantime, think I will call it quits for now > and goto bed. > > Thanks in advance > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
