Screen resoluton

[Konstantinos Togias]

On 9/22/06, NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:
> Konstantinos Togias wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Section "Monitor"
> >>         Identifier      "SyncMaster"
> >>         Option          "DPMS"
> >
> > In this Section you can put the VertRefresh and HorizSync values for
> > your monitor. Now those values are not defined and X.org trys to probe
> > those values by itself. It may cannot find out the correct values and
> > this can be the reason you cannot get a resolution better than 640 X
> > 480. Look for the correct ranges for your monitor either on it, or in
> > its manuals, or do a search at manufacturers web site, or generally on
> > google with the make and model of your monitor. Once you know the
> > ranges you can put them here, or give them to dpkg-reconfigure
> > xserver-xorg once asked.
> >
>
> Konstantinos, is there some default setting that can be placed in the
> file or via $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg for a situation where
> there is no monitor, but instead the system is accessed only via VNC?

I dont know if there is a "default" setting... Maybe giving the
horizsync and vertrefresh of a monitor that can do the resolution you
want (even if you do not intend to really connect it to the machine)
make X.org start at that resolution.


-- 
Konstantinos Togias
University Of Patras
Dept. of Mathematics