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Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« on: August 30, 2006, 05:36:54 pm »
    Subsection "Display"
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        Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
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That's strait out of xorg.conf, but the only one that displays even remotely correctly is 1024x768, which is too not-enough-spacey.  Anyway, 1600x1200 and 1280x1024 don't even come up, and the other 3 options are cut off and everything is too big.
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2006, 05:48:17 pm »
man xrandr

32-bit display doesn't exist as far as my experiences have been.... 24-bit is the highest. Shrug.
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Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2006, 05:58:50 pm »
It's the same for 24 anyway.
« Last Edit: August 30, 2006, 06:19:51 pm by rabbit »
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2006, 06:19:56 pm »
bash-3.00$ xrandr -q
 SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
*0   1024 x 768    ( 321mm x 241mm )  *61 
 1    800 x 600    ( 321mm x 241mm )   73 
 2    640 x 480    ( 321mm x 241mm )   86 
 3    640 x 400    ( 321mm x 241mm )   86

I've had it larger before, so I know it lies!
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2006, 06:34:47 pm »
Quote from: Newby on August 30, 2006, 05:48:17 pm
man xrandr

32-bit display doesn't exist as far as my experiences have been.... 24-bit is the highest. Shrug.

In Windows, it's not really 32 bit color, it's 24 bit color (RGB...8 bits each for Red, Green and Blue) plus 8 extra bits that are used for alpha channel (transparency).
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2006, 06:39:03 pm »
Quote from: rabbit on August 30, 2006, 06:19:56 pm
bash-3.00$ xrandr -q
 SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
*0   1024 x 768    ( 321mm x 241mm )  *61 
 1    800 x 600    ( 321mm x 241mm )   73 
 2    640 x 480    ( 321mm x 241mm )   86 
 3    640 x 400    ( 321mm x 241mm )   86

I've had it larger before, so I know it lies!

Probably X isn't configured with the correct video driver if it can't take full advantage of the resolution ... usually X can detect the driver by itself.
Have you tried 'Xorg -configure'?  That will detect the hardware and settings and dump it into a file called xorg.conf.new.  You can test the new settings with 'Xorg -config xorg.conf.new' keeping in mind that Cntrl+Alt+Backspace will get you out of X.
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2006, 06:57:25 pm »
bash-3.00$ Xorg -configure
The '-configure' option can only be used by root.
bash-3.00$ su
Password:
bash-3.00# Xorg -configure
bash: Xorg: command not found


Balls.
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2006, 06:58:28 pm »
I want to slap you as hard as I can. Please, take some fucking initiative and find the motherfucking command yourself. Do we need to spoonfeed you how to do that too?
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[17:32:45] * xar sets mode: -oooooooooo algorithm ban chris cipher newby stdio TehUser tnarongi|away vursed warz
[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
[17:32:58] <xar> new rule
[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

Quote from: Rule on June 30, 2008, 01:13:20 pm
Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2006, 07:02:51 pm »
as non-root, "which Xorg"
as root, run the full command. 

root has a different 'PATH' than a normal user, fyi. 
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2006, 09:30:07 pm »
Thanks, it works now.  Brilliantly awesome 1600x1200 :D
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2006, 03:26:27 am »
Quote from: rabbit on August 30, 2006, 09:30:07 pm
Thanks, it works now.  Brilliantly awesome 1600x1200 :D

BTW rabbit.  If you're running FreeBSD on your new Thinkpad, you can easily set it up to finger print stuff :)
I have mine setup to accept finger prints on su, login, and xdm :D

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Initiating biometric authentication...
Verification start
Put finger
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Scanned good image
Operation succeeded
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Re: Changing Resolution Sucks at Life
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2006, 10:31:53 am »
Yeah, I'm thinking that as long as I have at least a 120gb drive I'll give a part of it to BSD.
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