Jez
07-12-2004, 01:06 AM
Hi there. I recently did a hard disk install, and now I'm trying to get various things working. One such thing is my monitor. It 'works' fine, but the highest resolution available was 1024x768, and it seemed to insist on running at 100Hz.
After a bit of searching etc., I came to the conclusion that I needed to fiddle with XF86Config-4 a bit. I did so. I commented out a load of lines which one thread suggested, and that did nothing by itself. However, I then looked futher down in the file, and found a bit which seemed to list available resolutions for each bit depth.
The lists for each depth listed "1024x768" as being the highest resolution. I simple stuck "1600x1200" "1280x1024" on the beginning of each of these lines.
This partially worked. Thing is, now everything is running at 1280x1024, which is one of the options I added... But this now seems to be the highest resolution available. I'm currently sitting here in Windows (:() and everything is working happilly at 1600x1200, like it always has done. I'm a bit clueless why "1600x1200" is not available for me in Linux at the moment.
Anybody know what I should be editing/installing to make this work properly?
If it's any help, I'm using an LG F900P monitor. I think this is more of a software thing though, right?
Any help appreciated :)
After a bit of searching etc., I came to the conclusion that I needed to fiddle with XF86Config-4 a bit. I did so. I commented out a load of lines which one thread suggested, and that did nothing by itself. However, I then looked futher down in the file, and found a bit which seemed to list available resolutions for each bit depth.
The lists for each depth listed "1024x768" as being the highest resolution. I simple stuck "1600x1200" "1280x1024" on the beginning of each of these lines.
This partially worked. Thing is, now everything is running at 1280x1024, which is one of the options I added... But this now seems to be the highest resolution available. I'm currently sitting here in Windows (:() and everything is working happilly at 1600x1200, like it always has done. I'm a bit clueless why "1600x1200" is not available for me in Linux at the moment.
Anybody know what I should be editing/installing to make this work properly?
If it's any help, I'm using an LG F900P monitor. I think this is more of a software thing though, right?
Any help appreciated :)