[Gloucs] Debian 4.0 - screen resolution

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:11:20AM +0100, Christian Trapp wrote:
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> Hi Simon,
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> I went through with dpkg and I still have the same problem. I enter
> the resolution and the refresh rate in KDE display module and activate
> the "Load when KDE starts" then it works fine as soon as KDE starts.
> But I have to do this for every user. This would not be the problem if
> the login screen into KDE would have the correct resolution and
> refresh rate. But the letters in the login screen are hardly to read
> and the login screen is bigger than my monitor. Is there a way to
> force the resolution/refreshrate of the loginscreen like in the
> usermode of KDE? The other thing is that although I have once removed
> all entries of the resolution from the xconf.org beside my 1440x900
> that there are still loads of others like 800x600 or 1440x1024 etc.
> Makes it perhaps sense to switch off the ddc as the x-server gets the
> resolution of the monitor when loading the xorg.conf?
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dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -plow

asks _all_ the questions.

You might want to look into frame buffer settings on the console
if you're using frame buffer.

Hope this helps,

Andy

> Thanks in advance Christian
> > On 29 Aug 2007, at 10:46, Christian Trapp wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Question concerning screen resolution. I have a 19" widescreen. The 
> >> x-server startet with a resolution of "1280x1024".
> >
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. And go through the detailed setup.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Simon