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i know that pressing Ctrl + Alt + +/- changes the zoom in a particular resolution.
is there a way to change the res itself? coz divx movies aren't playing properly in 1024x768 (interlaced) but look fine in 800x600. is there a way to change it without editing XF86Config everytime i wanna watch a movie.
what i've done is add a "Modes" line in the screen sections for the default colour depth i use. i comment/uncomment one of the two depending on what i'm doing.
Their are a few different ways to change you're resolution size with XFree86 4.x with Slackware.
A. run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg (the graphical configuration utility)
B. run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config (the text based configuration utility)
C. edit /etc/X11/XF86Config after making a backup first.
@DavidPhillips: is there any way i could find out which one is causing the problem? here's the error i get when trying to start an x session in 1 (:1) after creating one on :0
Code:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
@Mainframe: i've already got 1024x768 and 800x600 running using two different XF86Config files as DavidPhillips' posts above indicated. the issue now is trying to get 2 x sessions running at the same time.
I found a couple of other postings on the web with your same problem, but they did not say which cards they have. However I did notice that your log file shows the driver is NVIDIA and mine is using the NV driver, so they are different.
well, i installed the nvidia driver so i changed the 'nv' to 'nvidia' like the readme said. when i use 'nv' it works, 2 x sessions are created. if i use a combination then comp normally hangs.
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