alteration of screen resolution

[Collins]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:48:19 +1000 Keith Antoine
<kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:> On Thursday 21 March 2002 06:54 pm,
you wrote:> > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:49:55 +1000 Keith Antoine
> >
> > [ snip ]
> >
> >  > I cannot remember how to easily alter the screen resolution. Yes
> > >
> > > its been talked about often enough and I was sure I had a hard
> > > copy, but cannot find it.
> >
> > Presuming you have defined multiple resolutions in XF86Config(-4),
> > it's ctl-alt-+ of ctl-alt-- (on the numeric keypad).
> 
> Ahrrgg, it was the numeric pad I was missing out on, many thanks.
> Now I have 1024x768 and 640x480, however I would like to add in the
> next highest resolution (1158x?), can I do this easily, like edit it
> in ?
> 

Add the additional resolution to the line for your color depth (or to
all depths) in XF86Config(-4) and restart X.  X uses the resoultions in
the order you state them, so put your favoirte "default" first in each
list.

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