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Re: Help! Video Resolution Problem!

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From: Jack Hoult
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:00
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Hmmmm, my two cents >plink< >plink<
Look at your monitor configuration. if it thinks you have a low-end monitor
that could cause problems. I'll assume you have used Xconfigurator (^_^) (at
least that's what I use in Red hat 6.1)

  -Wolph


"Richard S." <rick_s_s@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:38b1d67e_2@nntp2.nac.net...
> Hello,
>
> I am working with WINLINUX 2000 (2.2.6 kernel) using KDE.  I have a S3
> Savage4 (AGP) video card and the display is off.  My computer is an AMD K6
> III 400 mhz with 64 megs of RAM.  Things I have tried...
>
> * used the S3 Savage 3D driver and it works but only in 4 bit color mode.
>
> * used the S3 86C391 (Savage 3D) driver and that works in 4 bit color mode
> only.
>
> * used the standard SVGA driver and it works great even the mouse is
faster
> but the resolution is so high I can only fit 4 icons on the screen.  I
tried
> to change the resolution in the configuration utility but it seems to have
> no effect.  I tried to use the CLT-ALT-'+' or '-' and that is not working.
>
> Please help
>
> Rick
>
>
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