Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution

[Tom Wolfe]

Thanks Ville!!! That is exactly what fixed it.

Regards,
Tom Wolfe

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On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Ville Pöntinen wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I had similar problem after a fresh installation on 8.10. This is what
> fixed it for me. I had line
>
> X_MODE_0 = 1024x768
>
> already in lts.conf (and everything used to work in 8.02). But after
> installing 8.10 I needed to add line
>
> CONFIGURE_X = True
>
> to make clients avoid resolutions 1200xsomething and obey the rule
> 1024x768. I dont remember where I found that option, but as said it
> works for me.
>
>
>
> Yours Ville
>
>
>
> 2008/12/3 Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Tom Wolfe wrote:
>>
>>> Any suggestions for how to prevent clients from having excessively high
>>> resolution, e.g. one of my clients ends up with 1920*1440 which is almost
>>> unreadable.
>>>
>>> I tried:
>>>
>>> [default]
>>> X_MODE_0 =1024x768
>>>
>>> in  /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf but for some reason this doesn't
>>> work on this client. I also tried sudo ltsp-update-image in case that
>>> needed to be done, but still resolution remains 1920x1440 on this client.
>>
>> Are you sure 1024x768 is an available mode?  I imagine the above only works
>> if it is.  If you know how to login on the thin client console you could
>> take a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see what modes are available.
>>
>> Gavin
>>
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