Hi,
Edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config.
If you don't have any, start Xconfigurator to create one.
Good luck
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>From: "Stadler, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [Cooker] Neomagic Video Issues?
>Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:28:26 -0500
>
>I agree, I have been using Mnadrake for the last year and every install I
>do
>the same thing modify my XF86Config. Being a newbee to Cooker, I have not
>been able to find out here this info is being called from, No XF86 file
>that
>I could find. But I could blame this on inexperience, any clues would be
>great.
>Thanks
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Quel Qun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 2:33 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Cooker] Neomagic Video Issues?
>
>
>I have a XPi laptop and I have to modify manually the XF86Config at each
>install. I gave up hoping that it could be one day automatically detected
>and I don't let Xconfigurator probing anything.
>
>Also, I use an external monitor to get a better definition, because linux
>cannot (apparently) use a 1024x768 extended definition with a 800x600 LCD
>screen like windows.
>
>So, there are four things I have to find out or modify:
>
>1. The monitor frequencies. You can set standard ones and tune it later
>with
>
>xvidtune.
>2. The video ram: 1 meg (which allows 8bpp at 1024x768)
>3. The definition: I set to 8bpp with 1024x768
>4. The "extern_disp" option has to be validated or else X dies.
>
>Took me a while to figure that out, but it works.
>
>One last thing. X (or I :) screws up something when it initializes, and
>makes my screen totally red or green depending on the monitor. The colors
>only come back when I start gnome-terminal (nearly only this program).
>Don't
>
>ask me why I have no clue, surely a palette problem. The workaround is to
>always let a gnome-terminal open when I leave X, even with KDE.
>
>Hope it'll help,
>
>
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