Hello,

    I have been attempting to adjust the rastered screen image of
XWindows on my system for some time now. The horizontal and vertical are
not sized well to my monitor's screen as of yet.
    I had at first attempted to follow intructions set forth from the
Linux RedHat manual for version 5.0, along with "Linux Unleashed" from
Sam's Publishing. It is mentioned therein that xvidtune is a utility for
just such a thing as I require. However, I receive no "buttons,
sliders", or whatnot as mentioned in the xvidtune man page, just a
report of the default resolution. I then abandoned xvidtune and have
since been experimenting with video timing adjustments within XF86Config
by following instructions on the subject I obtained from RedHat's
webpage. I have not been satisfied yet with what I have arrived at.
    I have recently found Xvidtune within the app-defaults directory and
noticed right away that this was a source-file of some sort for the
running, or configuring of xvidtune. I attempted to uncomment the lines
within Xvidtune and re-run xvidtune. I received a message that I would
need to "install" the program before running it. Okay, so I read the man
page on "install" and merrily went about running xvidtune again. This
time I received an error return about an exclamation mark at the second
line. I then attempted to run install on Xvidtune without monkeying with
uncommenting the lines; no help there. I am fairly C/Unix programming
illiterate, but I do think I know an exclamation mark to be denoting a
remark, a non-code element. Apparently it is not in this case.
    Would someone steer me in the right direction here concerning this
issue. Also, a related subject that I have not focused on yet is
changing the default 8-bit color to 32-bit TrueColor. I am apparently
missing some other init file other than xf86config, XF86Config, xinitrc,
.xinitrc, fvwmrc2, xvidtune, and Xvidtune......hmmmm, I think I
mentioned them all....not sure. Please excuse my sarcasim, have been
trying to get X right before loading CDE, it's turning into a
hobby....heheheheh.
    Below are particulars.

Thank you in advance....

Guyote
Boulder, Colorado
guy...@mho.net

OS                              RedHat 5.0 ( Intel platform )
Kernel                         2.0.33
X                                 updated xfree86 running fvwm
Video server (accel)     SuSE_Elsa_GLoria for Permedia2 AGP
Monitor                       ViewSonic P775

basically just trying to get the stock RedHat distribution to work......

Hmm.  You should get a report of the current specs in your xterm, but
you should also get a nice little dialog that reminds you that this is
dangerous stuff (particularly for fixed frequency monitors).

In fact, you should be running xvidtune as root . . .

All of the files in app-defaults are global "option" files.
Uncommenting things here without having the docs in hand is not
necessarily the smartest thing to do, as some of them are not
self-documenting.

I'm not sure what you've done at this point.  If possible, you might
just want to start with a clean slate and reinstall xvidtune from your
distribution or source.  Then try running it as root.

BTW, if you don't start X as root, make sure you export $DISPLAY or
you'll get another error message.  In bash, just type "export
DISPLAY=:0.0".

Try "startx -- -bpp 24"  (or 16 or 32, depending on what is supported by
and for your hardware).

Gee, I wouldn't call it "stock" if you've updated some of the packages.
Would you?  <grin>

Barthel
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    Hello,

    Thank you for your response.
    I have been goofing around alot with this system, and have been running as
root almost all the way through it. I will start again with a fresh copy of
Xvidtune/xvidtune as you have suggested......I suppose my messing around with
preprocessor statements is a bit dangerous. Lucky for me this is my home
system and not one at work! Hehehe.
    Ah! I used the statement "startx --bbp 32"! Should've been "startx -- -bbp
32". No wonder X wouldn't "listen" to me. Hmmmm, so much to learn.
    As for the "stock" distribution of RedHat; well I suppose what I've done
so far would classify my system as non-stock.
    Thanks again for the response and the help......

Guyote
Boulder, Colorado