Re: [XFree86] Slackware Screee Resolution Problems

2004-03-15 Thread jayjwa
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Pieter Hulshoff wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 16:36, Phil wrote: I have no idea of the capabilities of my monitor. Btw, is vesa really the driver you want to be using for your Radeon 8500? You wrote you installed the driver from ATI, but wouldn't you use the ati

[XFree86] Slackware Screee Resolution Problems

2004-03-14 Thread Phil
I am struggling to use any resolution other than 800x600, which is not good for my 20 monitor. When I CTRL-ALT +/-, the screen appears Smeared diagonaly. I am using ATI RADEON 8500, and have installed the rpm from ATI.com my XFree86Config section is: Identifier My Monitor HorizSync 31.5 -

Re: [XFree86] Slackware Screee Resolution Problems

2004-03-14 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
On Sunday 14 March 2004 16:14, Phil wrote: I am struggling to use any resolution other than 800x600, which is not good for my 20 monitor. Identifier My Monitor HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0 VertRefresh 40-90 Hmm, with a maximum of 50 MHz for the Horizontal Sync, you're likely to get a Vertical

Re: [XFree86] Slackware Screee Resolution Problems

2004-03-14 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
On Sunday 14 March 2004 16:36, Phil wrote: I have no idea of the capabilities of my monitor. Do you have a brand and type of the monitor? Google is your best friend in these things. :) Btw, is vesa really the driver you want to be using for your Radeon 8500? You wrote you installed the driver

Re: [XFree86] Slackware Screee Resolution Problems

2004-03-14 Thread Phil
My monitor is a 10yr old Hitachi 20 ... no, I am not crawling round the back of it to look for model numbers (not just yet ...). I dno;t know why XFree86Config says it is using VESA drivers ... i downloaded and installed the ATI rpm (rpm2tgz, installpkg), and thougth that would do it. Being

Re: [XFree86] Slackware Screee Resolution Problems

2004-03-14 Thread Pieter Hulshoff
On Sunday 14 March 2004 17:04, Phil wrote: My monitor is a 10yr old Hitachi 20 ... no, I am not crawling round the back of it to look for model numbers (not just yet ...). Hmmm, with a 10 year old monitor I don't know if I'd be willing to chance the trial and error method of increasing your

Re: [XFree86] Slackware Screee Resolution Problems

2004-03-14 Thread Bob Marcan
Phil wrote: My monitor is a 10yr old Hitachi 20 ... no, I am not crawling round the back of it to look for model numbers (not just yet ...). I dno;t know why XFree86Config says it is using VESA drivers ... i downloaded and installed the ATI rpm (rpm2tgz, installpkg), and thougth that would do