Re: Can't set resolution below 1280x1024 on RH9

Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
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Alex

--- Michael Keightley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Have just upgraded a Dell Latitude C800 laptop to Red Hat 9 from 7.2.
> It has a 1400x1050 max display and a 32MB ATI Rage 128 Mobility
> graphics card.
> In redhat-config-xfree86, I've set the display type to 
> "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel".  
> 
> When I start X I can only get 1400x1050 or 1280x1024.  It won't
> change to
> 1024x768, which makes the laptop useless as I need to connect it to a
> projector!
> 
> When I change the Modes line in XF86Config from:
>     
>     Modes    "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480"
> 
> to just:
> 
>     Modes    "1024x768"
> 
> I get the error below when starting X.  Anyone have any ideas, apart
> from
> downgraded to Red Hat 8???
> 
> % startx >& /tmp/out
> % cat /tmp/out


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