Restricting screen resolution

[daik]

I have Mandriva 2007 (not Spring) installed on my laptop. The laptop runs a screen resolution of 1280x800 and all works fine as long as I run normal desktop applications (like OpenOffice, Anjuta, Netbeans etc). But I occasionally want to play games using wine, or dosbox. Whenever I run one of these games in full screen mode they cut off the bottom of the screen. How can I fix this? I suppose I have to change something in my XOrg.conf but I do not know what, can someone help me with a few pointers?

[ikirkum]

I have Mandriva 2007 (not Spring) installed on my laptop. The laptop runs a screen resolution of 1280x800 and all works fine as long as I run normal desktop applications (like OpenOffice, Anjuta, Netbeans etc). But I occasionally want to play games using wine, or dosbox. Whenever I run one of these games in full screen mode they cut off the bottom of the screen. How can I fix this? I suppose I have to change something in my XOrg.conf but I do not know what, can someone help me with a few pointers?

open terminal and run setup and check if you find X Configuration and change that resolution to 1024x728 and check the same.

[daik]

I do not seem to have 'setup' installed, do you happen to know what package I need to install to get this? (I tried both as my user and as root)

[Saltamontes]

Did you try right click on the desktop, Desktop Configuration, Screen, Size Screen???

choose 1024

or if it dont appears, add it on Xorg.cof ( /etc/X11 )

Im using ( now ) Mandriva One 2008

[daik]

Now I am back after being away for a few weeks...
I do not have that option. I can "customize desktop background" (or what the wording happen to be, I have that machine off right now). Maybe that is a new feature in mandriva 2008?
Anyone know how to do this in 2007.0, it seems to be exactly what I am after, setting the size of the screen.
However gnome works just fine, if I maximize a normal gnome application it sizes itself properly. It is only wine applications that misbehaves it seems.

[neverus]

If you are using KDE you can put the "Resize and Rotate" applet in the system tray.
When you click this applet you get a menu of screen sizes to choose from.

To get the applet goto MENU System->Configuration->Hardware->KRandRTray

HTH
Terry.

[devils casper]

Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file here.

[daik]

Here is my xorg.conf. I would assume the problem lies in this file, but I am not confident enough to spot it or fix it. Any help is greatly appreciated!