screen resolution

[advance scout]

Is there a good way to check for screen resolution and change the movie size
accordingly?

[Andrew Bullock]

advance scout wrote:

> Is there a good way to check for screen resolution and change the movie size
> accordingly?
>
>

make the movie 100%x100% then you can either set scale=true and let it
do it automatically, or use Stage.width/height to resize a movieclip.

HTH

Andrew

[SteveC]

Using an ASP/VBscript server model I need to detect the screen resolution of
the website visitor and then either show flash movie one or flash movie
two... does anyone have a solution to this, as I've tried numerous
variations all with no success...



Steve

[John]

I use an old IBM Aptiva P2 with NEC MS FE700 Monitor, and have tried just
about everything I know to try to get the resolution greater than 832x624
which is the max on the selection screen also. Have tried about
everything on the forums too.

The IBM has an Ati built into the motherboard.

Does anyone know a command to issue from terminal mode which I can try
to force a change in screen resolution to 1024x768?

Any help will be appreciated.

John

[Sebastian Stein]

John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

> I use an old IBM Aptiva P2 with NEC MS FE700 Monitor, and have tried just
> about everything I know to try to get the resolution greater than 832x624
> which is the max on the selection screen also. Have tried about
> everything on the forums too.
>
> The IBM has an Ati built into the motherboard.
>
> Does anyone know a command to issue from terminal mode which I can try
> to force a change in screen resolution to 1024x768?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.

Have you tried to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and restart X-Server
afterwards?

Sebastian

[John]

Readers:

Sebastian and I have been corresponding off line, and nothing has been
resolved as yet. I'll let posters know if we get anywhere, but I really
do not expect to, because this is such an age old problem, the I figured
no more than one or two people would be interested in it. It involved
hardware dating back over 10 years ago, and I suppose I should be happy to
be able to see anything at all on my screen ;=).

Thanks, John




On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:37:03 +0100, Sebastian Stein wrote:

> John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

>> I use an old IBM Aptiva P2 with NEC MS FE700 Monitor, and have tried just
>> about everything I know to try to get the resolution greater than 832x624
>> which is the max on the selection screen also. Have tried about
>> everything on the forums too.
>>
>> The IBM has an Ati built into the motherboard.
>>
>> Does anyone know a command to issue from terminal mode which I can try
>> to force a change in screen resolution to 1024x768?
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated.

>
> Have you tried to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and restart X-Server
> afterwards?
>
> Sebastian

[John]

IT WORKED !!!!!

I don't know what I did but resolution change drop down now has all of the
resolution choices on it, and they WORK
!!!!
I did a reconfigure and walked through all the steps on xorg, entered 2048
on my cards memory, picked ati and do not detect model, picked ati generic
and by the time I finished, my computer restart has now crapped out and
leaves me at a black and white terminal instead of automatically doing a
startx for some reason - oh well, I can type that in.

Also, as I was going through the color depth, I changed from 24 to 8 per
your original suggestion.

Thank you for all your help Sebastian - I owe you one!!!!!!

John




On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:06:10 -0600, John wrote:

>
> Readers:
>
> Sebastian and I have been corresponding off line, and nothing has been
> resolved as yet. I'll let posters know if we get anywhere, but I really
> do not expect to, because this is such an age old problem, the I figured
> no more than one or two people would be interested in it. It involved
> hardware dating back over 10 years ago, and I suppose I should be happy to
> be able to see anything at all on my screen ;=).
>
> Thanks, John
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:37:03 +0100, Sebastian Stein wrote:
>

>> John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

>>> I use an old IBM Aptiva P2 with NEC MS FE700 Monitor, and have tried just
>>> about everything I know to try to get the resolution greater than 832x624
>>> which is the max on the selection screen also. Have tried about
>>> everything on the forums too.
>>>
>>> The IBM has an Ati built into the motherboard.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know a command to issue from terminal mode which I can try
>>> to force a change in screen resolution to 1024x768?
>>>
>>> Any help will be appreciated.

>>
>> Have you tried to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and restart X-Server
>> afterwards?
>>
>> Sebastian

[wyeknot]

John wrote:

> IT WORKED !!!!!
>
> I don't know what I did but resolution change drop down now has all of the
> resolution choices on it, and they WORK
> !!!!
> I did a reconfigure and walked through all the steps on xorg, entered 2048
> on my cards memory, picked ati and do not detect model, picked ati generic
> and by the time I finished, my computer restart has now crapped out and
> leaves me at a black and white terminal instead of automatically doing a
> startx for some reason - oh well, I can type that in.
>
> Also, as I was going through the color depth, I changed from 24 to 8 per
> your original suggestion.

Can you retrace what you did (to the best of your knowledge) and re-post
it? It's not totally clear from above. I also have an ATI, went
through some steps (installing ATI package) and ultimately modified
xorg.conf to "ATI" but it didn't work so I reverted back to "VESA".

Thanks.

Matt

[John]

Matt:
Thanks for writing. Please be aware, again, that I am using stone age
equipment. My bios indicates that the ati is reporting that it has 2048
kbs of memory, so I plugged that into the conf file (see complete listing
below)and also changed the default depth to 16 colors from 24. I used
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to do this. Also, I believe that I
indicated to not try to detect the video forcing ati generic choice and
then took the defaults for everything else and then did a
ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X. When I did a click on restart, I would
up with a black and white screen with a prompt to enter userid. When I
entered startx then the Ubuntu came up normally.

NOTE: the sudo command above walks you through setting up your video
settings again.

I finally cured the black and white screen simply by giving the old IBM
Aptiva the good ole one-finger salute (technical term for turning off the
power) and then turning it back on again and everything came up normally,
except that is was in 1024/748 mode, and the drop down screen now shows a
lot more possibilities under screen resolution.

I can not make any guarantees as to the sequence of events, and I have
on some forums that ATI has issued some newer drivers also.

Matt, seems like when I tried VESA like you I wound up at the black and
white screen and was such a newbie did not know what to do, and could not
get out of it, and finally gave up and re-installed the OS thereby loosing
everything I had done up to that point ;=) - not funny at the time, I'll
tell you!

Good Luck, John

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro (AGP)"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
VideoRam 2048
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NEC FE700"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro (AGP)"
Monitor "NEC FE700"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection




On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:52:16 -0500, wyeknot wrote:

> John wrote:

>> IT WORKED !!!!!
>>
>> I don't know what I did but resolution change drop down now has all of the
>> resolution choices on it, and they WORK
>> !!!!
>> I did a reconfigure and walked through all the steps on xorg, entered 2048
>> on my cards memory, picked ati and do not detect model, picked ati generic
>> and by the time I finished, my computer restart has now crapped out and
>> leaves me at a black and white terminal instead of automatically doing a
>> startx for some reason - oh well, I can type that in.
>>
>> Also, as I was going through the color depth, I changed from 24 to 8 per
>> your original suggestion.

>
> Can you retrace what you did (to the best of your knowledge) and re-post
> it? It's not totally clear from above. I also have an ATI, went
> through some steps (installing ATI package) and ultimately modified
> xorg.conf to "ATI" but it didn't work so I reverted back to "VESA".
>
> Thanks.
>
> Matt

[Sebastian Stein]

wyeknot <wyeknot108@oohay.com> wrote:

>> Also, as I was going through the color depth, I changed from 24 to 8 per
>> your original suggestion.

>
> Can you retrace what you did (to the best of your knowledge) and re-post
> it? It's not totally clear from above. I also have an ATI, went
> through some steps (installing ATI package) and ultimately modified
> xorg.conf to "ATI" but it didn't work so I reverted back to "VESA".

see my mail to him

On Mo, Januar 30, 2006 14:36, John Kimble wrote:

> IT WORKS !!! I don't know what I did, but I went through the
> reconfigure process and entered 2048 for video memory, picked ati
> generic, and lowered the color from 24 to 8.

So yes, the problem was just, that you did not have enough memory for this
high screen resolution with so many colors.



Sebastian

[Toby Newman]

On 2006-01-30, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro (AGP)"
> Monitor "NEC FE700"
> DefaultDepth 16
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 1
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 4
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 15
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection

Do those 1,4,8,15,16 entries denote colour depths?

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[John]

Toby:
Thanks for writing. As far as I know that is what they mean, and
every time I change the default depth, it does affect the color look.
Good Luck,
John


On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:56:09 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:

> On 2006-01-30, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Default Screen"
>> Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro (AGP)"
>> Monitor "NEC FE700"
>> DefaultDepth 16
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 1
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 4
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 8
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 15
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 16
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> EndSection

>
> Do those 1,4,8,15,16 entries denote colour depths?

[Toby Newman]

On 2006-01-31, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:56:09 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:
>

>> On 2006-01-30, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

>>> Section "Screen"
>>> Identifier "Default Screen"
>>> Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro (AGP)"
>>> Monitor "NEC FE700"
>>> DefaultDepth 16
>>> SubSection "Display"
>>> Depth 1
>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>> EndSubSection
>>> SubSection "Display"
>>> Depth 4
>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>> EndSubSection
>>> SubSection "Display"
>>> Depth 8
>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>> EndSubSection
>>> SubSection "Display"
>>> Depth 15
>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>> EndSubSection
>>> SubSection "Display"
>>> Depth 16
>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>> EndSubSection
>>> SubSection "Display"
>>> Depth 24
>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>> EndSubSection
>>> EndSection

>>
>> Do those 1,4,8,15,16 entries denote colour depths?

>
> Toby:
> Thanks for writing. As far as I know that is what they mean,
> and
> every time I change the default depth, it does affect the color
> look.
> Good Luck,
> John
>

I have less entries in my xorg.conf, and I also notice that where you
have 'DefaultDepth' I have 'DefaultColorDepth'.

I wonder if I could remove the "Display" subsections which refer to
colour depths that I do not use, in order to simplify my xorg.conf.

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
Monitor "PZ456"

DefaultColorDepth 16

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection


--
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Ignore any mail delivery error.

[John]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:03:50 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:

> On 2006-01-31, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

>>
>>
>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:56:09 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:
>>

>>> On 2006-01-30, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:
>>>> Section "Screen"
>>>> Identifier "Default Screen"
>>>> Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro (AGP)"
>>>> Monitor "NEC FE700"
>>>> DefaultDepth 16
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 1
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 4
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 8
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 15
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 16
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 24
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Do those 1,4,8,15,16 entries denote colour depths?

>>
>> Toby:
>> Thanks for writing. As far as I know that is what they mean,
>> and
>> every time I change the default depth, it does affect the color
>> look.
>> Good Luck,
>> John
>>

>
>
> I have less entries in my xorg.conf, and I also notice that where you
> have 'DefaultDepth' I have 'DefaultColorDepth'.
>
> I wonder if I could remove the "Display" subsections which refer to
> colour depths that I do not use, in order to simplify my xorg.conf.
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
> Monitor "PZ456"
>
> DefaultColorDepth 16
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
>

Toby:
Sorry, I'm too new to Linux to know, however if I have
learned anything from my 50 years in data processing, it's that
often it is best to leave it alone if it is working.

Best, John

> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 15
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
> EndSection

[John]

Toby:
Sorry, I'm too new to Linux to answer. If I have learned
anything in my 50 years of programming large mainframes in Cobol
it is that often times it is best to leave something alone if
it is working.

Good Luck, John




On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:03:50 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:

> On 2006-01-31, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

>>
>>
>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:56:09 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:
>>

>>> On 2006-01-30, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:
>>>> Section "Screen"
>>>> Identifier "Default Screen"
>>>> Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro (AGP)"
>>>> Monitor "NEC FE700"
>>>> DefaultDepth 16
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 1
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 4
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 8
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 15
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 16
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>> Depth 24
>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>> EndSubSection
>>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Do those 1,4,8,15,16 entries denote colour depths?

>>
>> Toby:
>> Thanks for writing. As far as I know that is what they mean,
>> and
>> every time I change the default depth, it does affect the color
>> look.
>> Good Luck,
>> John
>>

>
>
> I have less entries in my xorg.conf, and I also notice that where you
> have 'DefaultDepth' I have 'DefaultColorDepth'.
>
> I wonder if I could remove the "Display" subsections which refer to
> colour depths that I do not use, in order to simplify my xorg.conf.
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
> Monitor "PZ456"
>
> DefaultColorDepth 16
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 15
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubsection
> EndSection

[Toby Newman]

On 2006-01-31, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:03:50 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:
>

>> On 2006-01-31, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:

>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:56:09 +0000, Toby Newman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2006-01-30, John <jkimble@charter.net> wrote:
>>>>> Section "Screen"
>>>>> Identifier "Default Screen"
>>>>> Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro (AGP)"
>>>>> Monitor "NEC FE700"
>>>>> DefaultDepth 16
>>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>>> Depth 1
>>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>>> EndSubSection
>>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>>> Depth 4
>>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>>> EndSubSection
>>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>>> Depth 8
>>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>>> EndSubSection
>>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>>> Depth 15
>>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>>> EndSubSection
>>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>>> Depth 16
>>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>>> EndSubSection
>>>>> SubSection "Display"
>>>>> Depth 24
>>>>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>>>> EndSubSection
>>>>> EndSection
>>>>
>>>> Do those 1,4,8,15,16 entries denote colour depths?
>>>
>>> Toby:
>>> Thanks for writing. As far as I know that is what they mean,
>>> and
>>> every time I change the default depth, it does affect the color
>>> look.
>>> Good Luck,
>>> John
>>>

>>
>>
>> I have less entries in my xorg.conf, and I also notice that where you
>> have 'DefaultDepth' I have 'DefaultColorDepth'.
>>
>> I wonder if I could remove the "Display" subsections which refer to
>> colour depths that I do not use, in order to simplify my xorg.conf.
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Default Screen"
>> Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
>> Monitor "PZ456"
>>
>> DefaultColorDepth 16
>>
>> Subsection "Display"
>> Depth 8
>> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubsection
>>

>
>
> Toby:
> Sorry, I'm too new to Linux to know, however if I have
> learned anything from my 50 years in data processing, it's that
> often it is best to leave it alone if it is working.
>
> Best, John

On the contrary: The best way for me to learn is to break something I
really rely on. It really focuses the mind, I find! I cut my teeth in
MSDOS on my parent's business machine. Nothing helps you get to grips
with bioses, autoexec and config.sys like rendering your folk's home-office
inoperable at 10pm on a tuesday when you were supposed to be doing
homework not trying to run Doom!

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