[vox-tech] monitor troubles

[Jennifer Stickel]

I found the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and edited a few times.  Here is 
the most recent one that I tried:

Section "Screen"

    Identifier    "Screen0"
    Device    "VideoCard0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 16
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        16
        Modes        "1024x768" 
    EndSubsection
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth        24
        Modes        "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

When I restart X, I don't get any errors but the screen is still the 
same size.

Is there a tool I can use to figure out the amount of video RAM or do I 
have to look for manuals that might list that?
Thanks for all the help,

Jennifer

Jonathan McPherson wrote:

>Jennifer,
>
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>>Yes it is an LCD monitor.  I tried running xvidtune and got the message
>>"Video are not settable on this chip".  If I check the control center,
>>it says that the screen size is 640x480 and has no other options for
>>it.  How else can I up the resolution?
>>    
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>The first thing I would try is to follow the other poster's suggestion
>and manually edit the configuration file.
>
>However, if that doesn't work, you may be running into the same problem I
>have had with my LCD monitor: XFree believes that you can't support a
>higher resolution because it doesn't have the right specs on your monitor
>and video card.
>
>You need to tell xfree that your monitor has a very high range of
>horizontal and vertical synch frequencies, and that your video card has
>at least as much video RAM as it actually does.  XFree will not allow you
>to change to a resolution that it (a) doesn't think your monitor can
>handle or (b) doesn't think you have the video memory to maintain.
>
>You can do this in the configuration file mentioned by the other
>poster--the places on the file that you need to make the changes
>should be obvious.
>
>-jam
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