On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:13:47 +0000
"Chuck McGill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It was suggested that I go to setup and manually enter my video setup.
>I had accepted Arachne's suggestion to run with vesa 800x600. I have
>been very satisfied with this setup except for the lost 1/5 th of
>my screen. When I input vga 800x600 I get a full screen but the
>resolution is not as good as the vesa setup. By loss of resolution I
>mean the backround swirls on the desktop screen do not display the amount
>of shading that vesa does.
Had this problem also, I think it's more to do with multisync monitors:
The monitor I use (Dell 15FS-EN) will sync to a wide range of signals, but I
found when setting up Linux and windows NT that some video modes made the
screen 'narrow'. Manual adjustment was possible, but *annoying* each time I
wanted to run linux or NT. Basic thing is that the refresh rate rises for
VESA modes, which look 'better' ie less flickery. This can also result in
the monitor adjusting the scan width of the screen (sometimes off the
edges!)
Can either use DOS utilities (if supplied with your AGP card, or get em from
manufacturers website)... maybe a TSR program (which could eat into
available DOS memory)...
Or you can use the screen adjustment on the monitor to compensate. Obviously
this would work best of you spent all your time using Arachne :-)))
The loss of 'resolution' you mention is actually a loss of colour depth -
you may have 16 or 256 colours instead of 'hi-color', which means that
smoothly shaded images appear more grainy.
PS it might be easier to set up the monitor 1st for DOS use, then go back
and use any driver utils for the AGP *card* under win95 to adjust the screen
width *for* win 95 when you're happy with the monitor's settings.
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