Adding video modes

[Kurt Wall]

Also sprach Kevin O'Gorman:
>
> Yes, I should have mentioned that.  It's running COL 3.1.1 WS.  I had
> been trying the old version 3 commands and they don't work.  So thanks
> for giving me the name of the program.

Ah. I haven't touched OpenLinux since I left Caldera.

> Unfortunately, it does not seem to make any changes to the
> configuration file -- at least I've been unable to make it do so. 
> What I've tried is (with and without the command line options
> -xf86config /usr/X11/XF86Config-4) is to add a VESA mode 1280x1024
> that I think the hardware can handle, then exit and answer "yes" when
> it asks if I want to update.

Are you sure it's using /usr/X11/XF86Config-4? I've labored under
the notion that X uses /etc/X11/XF86Config{-4}. The config file X
uses under normal circumstances should be identified in /var/log/XFr3386.n.log,
where n is usually 0 or 8. You should also be able to find lots o' other
useful information therein. Turning up the log level with -logverbose might
help, too.

> The mode does not appear in the config file, it not present
> when I start xf86cfg again, and cannot be tested.

Hmm. Well, so much for that brilliant notion. :-(

> Clues?

Colonel Mustard in the Green Room with the poker.

Kurt
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