X and Fluxbox :: Resolution questions

now i don't know what the problem might be...maybe the monitor just refuses to go higher than 800x600, but i would have thought it would not display much at all in that case. sorry i'm stumped.

I'm with you thinking it wont go higher. If anyone else has a suggestion, I'm all ears. Thanks for all your help mikshaw.

How high can your resolution go in 24bit/32bit colour in OS's?

Xvesa requires a vesa 2.0 compliant graphics card and it may be that you card doesn't support vesa 2.0 modes above 800x600. You can check this by running "Xvesa -listmodes" (without quotes) in an X-term. If it doesn't, you probably have to install the XFree mydsl package.

Woohoo, skaos, you have the answer. Not particularly the answer I wanted, but THE answer none the less. I ran the command, and none of the listings were more than 800x600. (but hey, it looks like I can go 640x200 monochrome....) This is a laptop so it has its limitations. Why would it accept the higher resolution, and say it is there, if it wont go that far?
It looks like I have to play around with the XFree package.

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