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After firing up XFree86, what appears on the screen looks as though
I'm looking at a normal screen through a magnifying glass.  From what
I can tell, I've used the correct information for configuring the
monitor and the display card (I think!).  Any ideas as to what could
have been set up incorrectly to cause this?

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If you configured X to use a 1024x768 virtual desktop and
the resolutions are specified like this:
"640x480" "800x600" "1024x768", then the default resolution is
640x480 with a desktop of 1024x768.

If this is the case, just reverse the list of the configured
resolutions in such a way that 1024x768 becomes the default res.

Bernie.

Quote:>After firing up XFree86, what appears on the screen looks as though
>I'm looking at a normal screen through a magnifying glass.  From what
>I can tell, I've used the correct information for configuring the
>monitor and the display card (I think!).  Any ideas as to what could
>have been set up incorrectly to cause this?

I'm a newbie but may have the answer to your problem:

Pressing Control-Alt-<Grey Plus> cycles through the display resolutions
your card is capable off

it sounds like you're looking at one corner of a virtual desktop
if you're using XFree-86 (I don't know about anything else) your
config file defines which video modes X is capable of supporting.
The first mode in the config file is the mode it starts up in
e.g
        "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
means it starts in 640 by 480 resolution; if you want it to start in
1024x786 change it to:
        "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

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