Higher resolutions on MultiScan 1705 display

[David Merwin]

Ok, try this,

as root:

cd /etc/X11

pico (or vi... what ever) XF86Config-4

Scroll down to the line that starts:

Section "Screen"
 
What you are lookign for is the "SubSection" as follows...

SubSection "Display"
      Depth 8
      Modes "--ok this should be set to 600x800--Change it to the 
resolution that you want in this case 1024 x 768"
      ViewPort 0 0
        Virtual --ok this should be set to 600x800--Change it to the 
resolution that you want in this case 1024 x 768
EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"
      Depth 16
      Modes "--ok this should be set to 600x800--Change it to the 
resolution that you want in this case 1024 x 768"
      ViewPort 0 0
        Virtual --ok this should be set to 600x800--Change it to the 
resolution that you want in this case 1024 x 768
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
      Depth 24
      Modes "--ok this should be set to 600x800--Change it to the 
resolution that you want in this case 1024 x 768"
      ViewPort 0 0
        Virtual --ok this should be set to 600x800--Change it to the 
resolution that you want in this case 1024 x 768
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
      Depth 32
      Modes "--ok this should be set to 600x800--Change it to the 
resolution that you want in this case 1024 x 768"
      ViewPort 0 0
        Virtual --ok this should be set to 600x800--Change it to the 
resolution that you want in this case 1024 x 768
EndSubSection

Save and rstart x. Should work. On e other note. The cool thing about 
KDE (maybe Gnome?) i sthat you can zoom the desktop with the +  or - key 
commands. To do this, use the list of resolutions in mode. Like this: 
1024 x 768 800 x 600 640 x 480.

Hope this helps.

David Merwin
dave@asulos.com

Brian wrote:

>I recently installed YDL 2.3 on my 8500 with a MultiScan 1705 display.  
>Everything works great except for the fact that I can only use an 800x600 
>screen resolution in X, regardless of the color depth (I know the monitor 
>supports higher because I've used 1024x768 in MacOS).  Using Xconfigurator to 
>set the resolution any higher always produces the same result: when I run 
>startx the monitor goes to "sleep" but the machine apparently continues to 
>function because eventually I hear KDE's startup chime.  Any advice would be 
>greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>
>-Brian Winter
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