From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:10:44 +0000

Re: Full scrreen mode in X?

Peter I Amstutz wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Garrett B wrote:
> 
> >    How do you setup a full screen mode in X at the resolution you want?
> 
> You want to use the DGA target.  I'm not sure if you can set it to
> arbitrary screen mode though...

Only valid modes listed in /etc/XF86Config (or whatever) can be set
by the X server. This is true whether you use DGA or not.
Also you can't change the bit-depth runtime in XFree <= 3.x.

//Marcus
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