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Bodaciously Big Desktop Help Needed, Pretty Please :)

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From: Nice Girl
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:00
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Greets to you all, and THANK GOD for this newsgroup! :)

I bought the Special Edition Using Linux 2nd edition, and it came with 
Slackware and RedHat. The authors wrote the book for Slackware and just "threw 
in" RedHat as a bonus. I heard RedHat was better, so I installed it. Install 
went smoothley, only took three or four tries... and then I come to XWindows (I 
think, because I can only see 1/25 of the desktop. I'm talking about mouse 
cursors the size of quarters here! Hahaha. All I can see of my first desktop is 
a :clear" and a "done" button. The rest of the dialogue box is three miles 
above my screen.

I see that Slackware comes with a trident video driver, but in RedHat I have to 
pick "Generic" video card. Could this be the prob? Should I just ditch RedHat 
and go with Slackware just to see the screen in "normal" view?

I'd buy you lunch, but you'd have to come here. I get motion sickness... 
Hahahaha! Later! :)
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