Re: [tlug] Adjusting screen resolution in Debian

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:44:01 +0900
Joseph Essertier <essertier@example.com> wrote:

> I installed Debian Sarge the other day and everything seems to work
> fine, but the screen resolution is like 600x480, when I'd rather have it
> at 1280x1024.

> I installed the pciutils package to find out which chipset my video card
> uses, and when I typed "lspci," it came back with the "VGA Compatible
> Controller" as "VIA Techonologies, Inc.," which is correct, but it says
> "device unknown."
I have such a beast in my box:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)
lspci on sarge knows about this specific PCI device, so your chipset must
be much newer.

Anyway, check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (since sarge doesn't have xorg)
and make sure you have something like this in there.
The first mode in the Display subsection is the default when you start up
X.

---------------------------------------------------
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Video Card"
        Driver          "via"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "Video Card"
        Monitor         "Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24

        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
---------------------------------------------------

If it doesn't work, check /var/log/XFree86.0.log, or post it somewhere so
we can look at it.

HTH.

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