Re: Screen resolution

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be:
everything appears very big.
Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution?
And a way to make it be what it should?
When I run 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xfree86',
the resolution displayed is never what I put: 1024×768.
I have Sarge 3.1 stable.



Stephen Cormier writes:

Get out the manual/search online for the specifications for the
horizontal and
vertical refresh rates for the screen/monitor. Then use advanced when
reconfiguring and put in the values when asked, Debian always sets up the
refresh rates too low which stops you from getting the higher resolutions.



I don't know the horizontal and vertical refresh rates of my screen,
I should search for them online.
Anyway, the problem seems to be solved now since I run
'$ dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver.xfree86' again and properly
selected '1024×768' as screen resolution, using the 'space' key.
Now the ouput of 'xrandr' is:

SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
*0 1024 x 768 ( 260mm x 195mm ) *61
1 800 x 600 ( 260mm x 195mm ) 73
2 640 x 480 ( 260mm x 195mm ) 73
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none

, and the output of 'xdpyinfo':

screen #0:
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (260x195 millimeters)
resolution: 100x100 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
root window id: 0x3a
depth of root window: 24 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x20
default number of colormap cells: 256


. I didn't know I had to use the 'space' key to select and unselct values,
that's why it didn't work: I hit 'enter'.
I'm new with debian and still don't handle very well the installation debian
tool.

Thanks indeed,
Rodolfo


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