[1106] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: Configuring X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jan 16 03:28:51 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 03:27:14 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Michael A Behr <mabehr@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1102] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
> I'm having a bit of trouble configuring X properly. I run
> XF86Config, type in all the stuff about my computer, and startx.
> When X starts up though, the resolution is really low, and
> everything's maginified quite a lot. Letters are almost an inch
> high. Do you have any suggestions?
Towards the end of your XF86Config file, there should be a section
that starts with:
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
with, inside it:
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
Reverse the order of the Modes there, and all should be well.
