Screen Resolution

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 23:20 -0500, Marco DeMarco wrote:
>    I'm very new to FreeBSD or to any UNIX/Linux environment. My company
>    is starting to look at it so I wanted to get a head start and use one
>    of my old PC's to install and learn to use it.  I have been able to
>    install FreesBSD 6.1 - I also downloaded Xorg and finally Gnome 2.12.3
>    - This is on a Pentium III 933 MHz 284 Mg RAM.  The PC is a Dell
>    Dimension 4100 and the monitor is a Dell M781s.  I can't get the
>    screen resolution better than 640x480 - but the Monitor manuals state
>    that it can handle better.
>    [1]http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/688en/en/index.htm

     It can handle better.  Did you run xorgcfg?  This is a graphical 
     X config, it will help you set up your xorg.conf correctly.  Read
     more here,

     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html
> 
>    The Video card is a Trident '94 more than that I don't know how to
>    figure out.  I don't remember if this was the card that came with the
>    PC from Dell or if I had to replace.  One more thing but I believe it
>    doesn't make a difference - There's an IView KVM Switch that I have in
>    between the Card and Monitor.  Anyway any help to get my Screen
>    Resolution better than 640x480 would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>    Thank You.
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> References
> 
>    1. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/688en/en/index.htm
>    2. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2755??PS=47575
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