On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:43 pm, Alex Horvath wrote: have you tried running XFdrake in a terminal? make shure it detects your vid card right, and try picking different monitors under generic that fit the capabilities of what you have. this will also offer a chance see what messages are printed to the terminal while setting things up, might help give you a better idea of what is going on.
> Hi All > > I have a Supermac j900 running Mandrake 8.2PPC. > > I've got an ATI Xclaim VR (Rage II) and an Apple 17" Monitor. > > The current display mode is 800x600 (i think the refresh is 75). > > I'd like to change the display mode to 1024x768 @75 or 85, but I can't seem > to do it. > > I figured out that X is using the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for the > configs, but if I add 1024x768 to the Screen section, X errors out with a > signal 11. > > I know that the monitor and card can do 1024x768@75 because I use this on > the MacOS. > > I've tried the default 1024x768 settings, plus my own that I generated at > http://xtiming.sourceforge.net > > Thanks in advance!!! > > AH tm.
