[newbie] Re: x windows

[Dave R. Meyers]

go to your monitor manufactur's web site and find out all the spec's on
your monitor.
find out all the spec's on your video card.

when you set up x use the closest settings to your monitor and vidcard
that you can.

for the resolution, start at 640X480 in 8 bit color, then go to 16 bit
color, then try 24 bit.  If all that works , step it up to 800X600.  Go
as high as you can. If you have a 17 inch monitor, 1024X768 at 24bit
color looks fine.

from the command line you can run Xconfigurator to set it all up.  I
have a viper330 and a sony 17se and I had to set it all up by hand,
kinda sucked but I understand more about the process now.

Dave