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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help! Giant XFree86 And No Xvidtune Date: 20 Mar 1997 20:50:13 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 47 Message-ID: <01bc3570$8d443cc0$7c01a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <MPG.d9a34b923c4e3d989680@snews.zippo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunnet.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37536 Yah, the X configuration is a real riot. I've got as /etc/XF86Config file on my machine at home that works perfectly, but you attempt to run either configuration utility XF86Setup or xf86confing and input the monitor and card values and they produce config files that are unusable. You pretty much have to use these configuration utilities as starting points and hand-edit XF86Config. Take a look at /usr/X11R6/bin/X If this symbolic link points to XF86_SVGA then look in /etc/XF86Config under the section "Screen" Driver "SVGA" , otherwise if it points to one of the accellerated servers, then look under the section "Screen" Driver "Accel" In this section there is a Modes line listing all of the resolutions that X is set up for with your card. The LARGEST mode in this section will be used to create the "Virtual Desktop", for example if the largest mode is "1152x864" and if your running at 640x480 then your xterms are going to be huge. There is a Virtual keyword that can be put into XF86Config, unfortunately this only works if the value you put in there is _larger_ than the maximum resolution specified in the Modes line (also, assuming you have enough video memory) which makes it pretty worthless. If you attempt to force it to be smaller, the larger resolution specified in the Modes line will override the virtual setting. What you want to do is decide what the largest resolution you want to run X at is, then delete all larger resolutions in your Modes line. This makes it a pain to temporairly jump up to a _larger_ screen resolution while X is running on-the-fly, but it will get rid of that annoying "virtual desktop scrolling" feature that makes the X programs all run so large. Ted Ward Bones <mr_bones@batbones.com> wrote in article <MPG.d9a34b923c4e3d989680@snews.zippo.com>... > > I've just installed 2.1.7 with xwindows on a Pentium200MMX > with a Matrox card and Viewsonic 17gs monitor. No matter > what pixel width I assign to xwindows, my terms end up huge > (about 8x my screen size). Worst of all, xvidtune core dumps > every time I run it. I'm pretty green so go easy on me. > > Thanks, > > ward >