From: forkosh@panix.com   
      
   Mike Spencer  wrote:   
   > John Forkosh  writes:   
   >> Jimmy Johnson  wrote:   
   >>> Mike Spencer wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Finally dumped my big 19" 4:3 CRT monitors.  Happy with a new 24" 16:9   
   >>>> for the new(er) Slack 15.0 box.  Now have the old 14.2 Pentium 4 on a   
   >>>> nice used HP L1950 monitor I was given.  It defaults to using 1024x768   
   >>>> where text is big enough for old eyes but it's a 5:4 monitor and images   
   >>>> are distorted.  Thanks to pointers here on a.o.l.s to xrandr, this   
   >>>>   
   >>>> bogus% cvt -v 1280 1024   
   >   
   > Tnx for replies but you snipped the part where I report at all is well   
   > with the X display itself.   
   > It's the virtual consoles to which you can switch with CTRL-ALT-Fn   
   > that remain a problem.   
   >    [ suggestions about X snipped ]   
   > These suggestions are about getting the res right for X.  I have that   
   > already.   I'm trying to get the mode right for consoles.   
      
   Oops, my bad, followed-up JJ's answer which had snipped most of your   
   "console problem" stuff, though I should have inferred it from the   
   remaining reference to cvt.   
      
   Anyway, no solution to your actual problem, but a recommendation.   
   Let me now infer that you're using a lot of those Fn consoles   
   due to your up-to-now use of that 19" crt, where trying to run   
   multiple terminals in X leaves each one too small to be easily readable.   
   But I think you'll find the situation changed with your 24" led.   
   Try it, and see if that's more convenient. I prefer /usr/bin/konsole,   
   but there are many different choices. And the only thing I use   
   an Fn console for now is to startx (I still boot in console mode).   
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   John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )   
      
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