rsy369
06-14-2001, 01:21 PM
Stupid newbie ?; I have installed Redhat 7.0 on my custom box, install goes fine, everything during install looks 800X600. but after reboot of initial install I get a screen that is clear, but smaller than I've seen on any computer before and looks like about a 4 pt font. The same thing happened in reverse on my IBM P100 box. The 640X480 or larger is so big I can user the Gnome GUI. all the screen is in the top left. Please help stupid newbie. many thanks for any suggestions.
RSY369
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Radar
06-14-2001, 01:30 PM
XF86Setup or xf86Config as root will let you change thise display modes.
pbharris
06-14-2001, 01:32 PM
hello,
rerun Xconfgiurator or if you want ultimate control edit /etc/X11/XF86Config, might be XF86Config-4 too.
PaleoKing
06-14-2001, 01:55 PM
The first time I installed RH (5.2) I found that XConfigurator, which seems to be the same menu driven X Windows config utility that is tacked on to the end the installation, didn't do a very good job getting the settings right for my video card and monitor. In subsequent releases, it's done really well, but I would imagine that it still doesn't get every Card/Monitor combination right, so you'll probably have to use xf86config, which is a text based question and answer configuration utility that gives you a more granular level of control. Before you run it though, make sure you have the specs for your card and monitor handy. For the card, you pretty much just have to know the chipset and how much video RAM it has; for the monitor you'll need to know the Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates. You also might want to hit The XFree86 Project web site (http://www.xfree86.org/) and see what server you should use for your card. Armed with this info, you should be able to answer all the questions in xf86config and get a usuable XF86Config file in /etc/X11. Afterward, you may want to peruse that file, as it will be well commented, and give you an idea of what each section does. Eventually you may find that to get X to do exactly what you want, you have to tweak that file by hand.
As a final resource, I highly recommend checking outThis guide to X-Windows (http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=c1364.html#XF86CONFIG) from SlackWare, which is pretty much distro independent, and easy to understand.