Forceig a resolution in xorg server

Andy Greenwood greenwood.andy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 19:33:28 UTC 2006


I haven't used X in a loooong time, but IIRC you should be able to
just remove all the other modes from the .conf file. If there's only
one availilbe mode, X will have to use it :-)

On 8/28/06, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>
> I'm (huridelly) building a new machine to replaced my (just failed) main
> workstation at work. I have Xorg installed, and when I type X it starts up
> OK. KDE, and kdm work also. But, at way too high a resolution. I tried doing
> X -configure to generate a config file, but the resultant file contains no
> resolution settings.
>
> How can I force X to run in 1280x1024 x 24 bit color mode?
>
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