Bill Christensen wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently acquired a second 17" LCD monitor (from LEM Swap, natch). > My old one moved over to replace the 17" Apple CRT (Studio Display? > Not sure what it's called, but it looks like the 1st gen iMacs). > > One of the machines on that monitor, a G4 dual 450 running 10.4.8, > only has two monitor size choices: 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768. The > LCD wants something more in the 1280 x ??? range, and after a restart > comes up black. > > I can get to it using good ol' Timbuktu, and fortunately it's a > server that doesn't require me to look at it often. So I'm not > hurting too bad. > > I've tried other video cards that show the same with this particular > system install, and other hard drives with various OSX installs have > displayed plenty of choices fine on this machine. The card is a > standard ATY Rage 128 Pro (ROM revision 113-72701-125 if that makes > any difference). > > So the big question is: what system bits do I need to copy into > there to get it to show me a choice in the 1280 range? Because this > is a working server I'm not prone to a system reinstall - or as you > can see by the fact that it's at 10.4.8, an upgrade. It ain't *that* > broke, so I don't want to do anything drastic and really break it. > But I'm fine with doing a restart.
What is the interface you are using on the Rage card? This card will work at the 1280 x 960, 1024 and others. Odds are the problem is because of the interface not recognizing what resolutions the monitor can handle. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
