Problems with monitor resolutions

[John & Tina Peterson]

I sent this out a couple of days ago.  It may apply to YDL 2.0 as well...

> I noticed that control-alt-(keypad)'+' and control-alt-(keypad)'-' didn't
> work on my iMac after install.  Checking /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, I noticed
> that the dot clock timings looked more like the verical refresh rates than
> dot clock times.  Doing a search I found dot clock timings that seem to work
> better.  On the mode lines under the 'Apple iMac Display' comment change the
> first numbers to:
> 
> 117 -> 49.886
> 95 -> 62.357
> 78 -> 78.525
> 
> That last one is for 1024x768.  The numbers are so close (even though one's
> in Hz and the other MHz) it works in that mode, but the others are way off.
> 
> Now I can zoom in with control-alt-(keypad)'+' and I'm happy.
> 
> John Peterson


on 4/27/2002 10:48 AM, Chris Alden at mohotsaucemoproblems@yahoo.com wrote:

> During the installation program of YDL 2.0 I was
> presented with a list of monitor resolutions I wished
> to be supported on my machine.  I selected nothing
> higher than 800x600.  But when I booted into KDE and
> Gnome, I realized that I was in 1024x768 mode using
> thousands of colors.  So, I went to the console and
> typed fbset -yres 800 -xres 600... and then the screen
> went black.  My question is... how do I get into
> 800x600 on my iMac?  Is it because I had thousands of
> colors enabled?  Is that too many for 800x600?  I had
> millions of colors on the MacOS partition.  Would that
> effect the Linux side?  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
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