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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!not-for-mail From: ahill@stang.netspace.net.au (Anthony Hill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: X starts in different modes Date: 22 Jun 1995 21:52:10 +1000 Organization: NetSpace Online Systems Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3sblha$776@stang.netspace.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: netspace.net.au Summary: X keeps starting up in a really sucky video mode Keywords: X video modes startx First I have to thank everyone for the amazing level and quality and help you have given me over the past week or so, and to apologize for the amount of it I have required. The problem of the week is - since I have installed 2.0.5-R, X has been starting in two different video modes - sometimes the expected 800x600 - about 46x133 characters, and sometimes in another really sucky lower resolution mode, about 32x131 characters (on the visible screen). There seems to be no pattern to which one will start up - I can exit X running in one mode, start it up with the same command (startx) - and it will start in the other mode. If the screen saver blanks the screen when it is in the higher res mode - the screen will always return in the lower res mode. I would just put up with it exept for the fact that the lower res mode really sucks - the characters are all too tall, and graphics are streched out. My video card is a Trident 9400CXI will 1MB ram I am running the XF86_SVGA driver. Has anyone else had this problem - any ideas what I could do about it ? -Anthony