On Saturday, November 27, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Dallas wrote:
Hello!
I have a Beige G3, 333mhz, 512mb RAM, OS 9.2.2 and Jaguar 10.2.8 (Build 6r73). I am using a PC monitor attached to a standard Mac-VGA adapter, no switches. Under 9.2.2, it usually starts up in 480-600 screen resolution, I then change it via ScreenRes from Griffin. Yet every time i reboot, it resets the display to 480-600. Is there a way to make it remember? The monitor is DDC compliant, and has lots of resolutions available on my B&W. Under Jaguar, it always boots up in 480-600, and I can't change it in SysPrefs (only one resolution) is there a way/program to force all resolutions under X?
Three ways to do this in increasing expense:
1) Get an adapter with the switches, then you set the reported resolution with the switches. About $10.
2) Get SwitchRes, (see Version Tracker) a shareware program that will do the switching for you at startup. IIRC it's $25 shareware; works both 9.2 and OS X.
3) Get a new video card, such as a Radeon 7000 or the new Radeon 9200, which will recognize the monitors' resolution. $50-$100. The advantage here is you'll have much faster video than the built-in, and you'll get all the choices of video, and (with some 7000's and the 9200) you can run dual monitors. Really nice, I have two 17" PC VGA monitors on my 7000 Mac Edition card, and they're really nice.
I've run dual monitors for a long time, and with two video cards (or internal and a video card) you never quite get the refresh frequencies identical, meaning there's a noticeable 'crawl' up one monitor and down the other. With the radon the same clock drives both, rock-solid screens at a high refresh rate. very nice.
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