Screen Resolutions ----Too BIG-- HELP ME-- I dont want to go back to WINDOWS

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Author: Cameron Haines
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:00

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I have red hat 5.2 installed. All went fine and all seems to work with
exception of one thing.. My screen is way oversized and can get it at a
smaller resolution. I think the resolution is at 320 range..I have already
went through the xf86config stuff and no good.. This is way to big and i
would love to get at least 800X600.. My video car is a Guillemot with a
Vodoo Banshee chipset, 16MB and so on. Is a great card in windows but what
gives with Linux? Any help is appreciated. I just dont want to give up on it
till i have too.. Thanks cameron

Re: Screen Resolutions ----Too BIG-- HELP ME-- I dont want to go back to WINDOWS

Author: John
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:00

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I installed red hat 5.2 and had the same problem as well.  The problem (most
likely) is that you have a virtual screen larger than your actual screen, so
you have to edit the X Windows configuration file.  It's in
/etc/X11/XF86Config file, and you need to go through and comment out all the
lines beginning with the word "Virtual" (comment out with a "#").  For more
details you can see http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#virtual.

I also have a Voodoo Banshee video card with 16Mb, but I haven't been able
to get the system to run with more than 16 colors.  Have you?  Any help you
could give would be much appreciated.  Thanks.

John


Cameron Haines <camhaines@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:7nee4q$jlo$1@oak.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> I have red hat 5.2 installed. All went fine and all seems to work with
> exception of one thing.. My screen is way oversized and can get it at a
> smaller resolution. I think the resolution is at 320 range..I have already
> went through the xf86config stuff and no good.. This is way to big and i
> would love to get at least 800X600.. My video car is a Guillemot with a
> Vodoo Banshee chipset, 16MB and so on. Is a great card in windows but what
> gives with Linux? Any help is appreciated. I just dont want to give up on
it
> till i have too.. Thanks cameron
>
>
>

Re: Screen Resolutions ----Too BIG-- HELP ME-- I dont want to go back to WINDOWS

Author: MinT
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:00

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try reconfiguring your xserver, select 800x600 at each level of the 
resolution panel. i forget whether they're 8 bit, 16 bit, 24/32 bit.

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In article <7nee4q$jlo$1@oak.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, "Cameron Haines"
<camhaines@earthlink.net> wrote:


> I have red hat 5.2 installed. All went fine and all seems to work with
> exception of one thing.. My screen is way oversized and can get it at a
> smaller resolution. I think the resolution is at 320 range..I have already
> went through the xf86config stuff and no good.. This is way to big and i
> would love to get at least 800X600.. My video car is a Guillemot with a
> Vodoo Banshee chipset, 16MB and so on. Is a great card in windows but what
> gives with Linux? Any help is appreciated. I just dont want to give up on it
> till i have too.. Thanks cameron
>
>
>

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