Virtual Desktop Help

rup1033 · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 8

Ive a cirrus logic 1MB video card on my server, and I want to run at 800x600 resolution at least so that I can see the back and next buttons on dialogues in KDE. There are no onboard video disabling jumpers so even if i plug a new pci card in and the system is using it Linux will still detect my old card and it causes conflicts. I know X can have a virtual desktop that can be scrolled that is larger than the base screen resolution. My question is how can I enable this feature as a workaround for my video cards small memory size enabling me to see more screen?

Thanks in advance.

fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

IIRC you have to write
Modes "640x480@1024x768"

to have a scrolling windows of a bigger desktop.
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rup1033 · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 8

Thanks. I will do that sir ^^ I googled around and nothing seemed to tell me that, it was all random usesless stuff.

rup1033 · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 8

I thought it was going to work and posted, I went to try that just now and changed my mode lines to "640x480@1024x768" all of them to be sure, when I startx it loads up into a 640x480 desktop no matter what I do.
Perhaps there is some other setting I need enabled? Using Gentoo LiveCD 2007.0.

fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

I did not remember correctly :roll: