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Trying to center Linux screen (modeline war)

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danielshoes

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My X displays slightly out of center (a little bit to the right side). When I run the "xf86cfg", I am able to center the screen, changing the modeline. I choose to write and save the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but when I quit X and start it again, the screen returns to the original uncentered position.

What is happening? Aren't my configs being saved? (Sure not, your idiot...)
What can I do to center it definetely?
 
heh, I've always dealth with this by fiddling with my monitor controls :0) However my guess would be that you might not be editing the correct copy of XF86Config, most likely there is a personal copy in your home directory. I've also never seen the file with a '-4' at the end either...
 
The 4 might have been danielshoes letting us know that this is xf86 v4. When I ran xf86cfg on my OpenBSD box it saved the xf86config file in the /root directort (ran it as root). See if there is a newer file in root's home dir. I have been thinking about going back to v3.3.6 (Matrox card so I can do this easily) because XF86Setup was much better than xf86cfg.
 
Bremen,
I know that my monitor controls allow me to center the screen. But if I do it, when I'll switch back to WinMe/Win2k, the screen will be uncentered...

I know that this center screen configuration has something to do with "modeline" settings in XF86Config (or XF86Config-4? I don't know now...). I would appreciate if somebody could explain something about this "modeline" and which of the XF86Configs is the correct to be eddited.

Thank you guys...
 
My solution was to run linux at a different resolution from windows, b/c the monitor stores different settings for each resolution + refresh rate. I couldn't get it to work with both linux & win using same settings.
 
In my case it certainly has nothing to do with video resolutions and refresh rate. I run it fine under 800x600 16 bits.

It is just a modeline problem (the problem is to center the screen, not to set resolutions). MGMorden sent me a private message with some good comments. I will try to follow that and see what happens...

Anyway, any help is welcome!
 
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