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rebelote

3rd April 2004, 11:11 AM

I am trying to change the resolution of my screen currently 1920x1440, billions of colors, on a Fedora Core 1, XFree.4.3,
to 800x600 to be able to watch .avi files on my TV screen and plug my thinkpad onto a videoprojector.

I tried several times by changing the convenient "modes" lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config but to no avail.

The KDE pretends to be in 800x600 mode but the it isn't true by evidence.

Any hint ?

Belayman

5th April 2004, 02:48 PM

This thread (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=51) helped me change my resolution to 1680x1050, and i would imagine that it would apply to 1920x1440.

good luck.

Jman

5th April 2004, 10:14 PM

Originally posted by rebelote
billions of colors
Wow. What graphics hardware are you using? Mine only goes up to millions. :D

You might try Main Menu > System Settings > Display (redhat-config-xfree86), although it has limitations.

sonicjon

15th November 2005, 12:34 AM

Dang it I want TRILLIONS of Colors. I have a really artisitc eye you know.