Changing Resolution Sucks at Life

[rabbit]

    Subsection "Display"
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        Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
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.

[Newby]

man xrandr

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

[rabbit]

It's the same for 24 anyway.

[rabbit]

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!

[nslay]

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).

[nslay]

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.

[rabbit]

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.

[Newby]

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?

[iago]

as non-root, "which Xorg"
as root, run the full command. 

root has a different 'PATH' than a normal user, fyi. 

[rabbit]

Thanks, it works now.  Brilliantly awesome 1600x1200 :D

[nslay]

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

%su
Initiating biometric authentication...
Verification start
Put finger
Image processing
Scanned good image
Operation succeeded
LIGHTBULB#

[rabbit]

Yeah, I'm thinking that as long as I have at least a 120gb drive I'll give a part of it to BSD.