Slacware 10 Issues

[Taavi Burns]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:26:40 -0400, Adam Raymond <streetsmart2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I just recently installed slackware 10 on my laptop. The screen
> resolution was off, so I changed  it in the xorg.conf. However, I
> still have a scrolling screen. Anybody know how to change this?

X tends to set the video framebuffer to the highest resolution it
finds in the file,
regardless of what it actually uses to display on the screen.  That's
why you get
the scrolling effect.  If you remove all mention of resolutions other
than the one
that you want (assuming that the one that you want is the correct
one), that should
fix the problem.  The most notable parts would be a Modes mode above what
you actually want, or a ViewPort above what you want (just set it to 0
0 as below
for automatic).

My config file looks more like:
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "7500"
    Monitor     "LCD"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

NB: This is for XFree86, not XOrg, but I don't think that this section
has changed
all that much between releases.

If you're looking to have actual resizing of the framebuffer, look into the
RandR (Rotate and Resize) extension.

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