How do I change screen resolution?

Tue Mar 13 03:16:51 UTC 2007

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 18:04 -0700, Earl Violet wrote:
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> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
> 	Device		"ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]"
> 	Monitor		"GATEWAY VX90"
> 	DefaultDepth	24    
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth		1
> 		Modes		"1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600"
> "720x450" "720x400" "640x480"
> 	EndSubSection

Hi Earl,
I have had similar problems in the past and I found that dropping the
DefaultDepth from 24 down to 16 cured the problem. I also am using ATI
3D Rage graphics card. Also for anybody using Vesa mode, apparantly Vesa
can not handle 24 depth graphics and needs to be set for 16 or even 15.

Regards
Jerome B