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12
Jul

sun gdm 17e11

Hi there,
Just got myself a sun monitor for my indy, and it works almost perfect.
It started in 1024×768 resolution and I switched to 1280×1024.
That works but I can only see part of the screen. It seems that the
desktop remains 1024×768, the icons on the right are off screen.
When I switch back to the old res of 1024×768 the problem remains, the
part with the Icons are gone.
Any hints? I did man setmon, but I couldn’t find anything that clears
things up for me.
Thanks,
—
Jeroen

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  1. admin says:
    July 12 at 10:53 am

    Jeroen wrote:

    > Hi there,
    > Just got myself a sun monitor for my indy, and it works almost perfect.
    > It started in 1024×768 resolution and I switched to 1280×1024.
    > That works but I can only see part of the screen. It seems that the
    > desktop remains 1024×768, the icons on the right are off screen.

    Do a "vulcan death grip", by simultaneously pressing
    LeftShift, LeftCtrl, F12, Keypad \.  This will re-start
    the Xserver, you can then log back in, and resume working
    after a mode change.

    If you want to reset it permanently, as root, do a
    nvram monitor h  (to set 1280×1024), or
    nvram monitor l  (to set 1024×768 – that’s a lowercase ‘L’).

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