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1Iwillie wrote:

> Howdy folks:
> Short and simple question here- I just picked up Red Hat 6.1 and I have an
> old CTX monitor (cvp-5468). I installed and the best display seems to want
> to magnify the GNOME screen. It looks huge and horrible. I went all the
> place looking for drivers but can find nothing.  Any help?

yes get the redhat 6.2............ i tried the same thing and they have more
drivers on 6.2 (even for my 8 mb Eontronics Picasso ) :) Hope this
helps........ newbie here too!!!!!

When you start xwindows, try pushing control/alt/+  at the same time.  That is
the kb shortcut to turning the res up.

If that dosen't work, try running xconf from the command prompt and try setting
the resolution a little bit higher and/or try using the generic monitor
setting.  I have problems with xwindows working right when i installed, but
after i ran xconf again, it worked right.

Just remember, YOU CAN SMOKE YOUR MONITOR IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL!!!!!!    if you
startx and your screen looks wierd  hit control/alt/bkspace quick to exit out
of xwindows and run xconf again.  You might have to do it more than once before
you get it right.

RS wrote:

> 1Iwillie wrote:
>
> > Howdy folks:
> > Short and simple question here- I just picked up Red Hat 6.1 and I have an
> > old CTX monitor (cvp-5468). I installed and the best display seems to want
> > to magnify the GNOME screen. It looks huge and horrible. I went all the
> > place looking for drivers but can find nothing.  Any help?
>
> yes get the redhat 6.2............ i tried the same thing and they have more
> drivers on 6.2 (even for my 8 mb Eontronics Picasso ) :) Hope this
> helps........ newbie here too!!!!!

Yes you must be careful with the refresh rates!  they'll smoke a monitor
pretty bad.  Don't trust the installer to get it right, that is why booting to
the graphics window option is dangerous, lost my install a few times because
of that and didn't know about the kb short cost to quit out of the xwindows
program.  My latest machine is an old clunker and the video card won't work in
the 6.2 installer, but I know it's settings so I set it and then when all is
done installing I can get into xwindows fine.  The trick is I set the CTX-1451
default refresh rates about 10 Hz (s)lower (on both) other wise the thing wigs
out and the screen doesn't appear at all).

1Iwillie wrote:

> Howdy folks:
> Short and simple question here- I just picked up Red Hat 6.1 and I have an
> old CTX monitor (cvp-5468). I installed and the best display seems to want
> to magnify the GNOME screen. It looks huge and horrible. I went all the
> place looking for drivers but can find nothing.  Any help?

I too had the same prob when I installed Debian/GNU Linux and again with
Corel Linux OS.  It was that the version of XFree86 didn't like the
graphics card I had (Rage128 chipset).  The solution - downoaded the
newer version of Corel Linux that had XFree86 3.3.6 (or something like
that - a newer version anyhow).  It solved it all and it works great.  I
suggest searching the web for Linux/<your-graphics-card>, or just
upgrade to a newer version of RedHat or XFree86.

Mark

In article <sokt21pldbm57@corp.supernews.com>,
  "1Iwillie" <tommy99@brueridge.net> wrote:
> Howdy folks:
> Short and simple question here- I just picked up Red Hat 6.1 and I
have an
> old CTX monitor (cvp-5468). I installed and the best display seems to
want
> to magnify the GNOME screen. It looks huge and horrible. I went all
the
> place looking for drivers but can find nothing.  Any help?
>
>


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