On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 8:07 pm, David Williams wrote: > On Saturday 04 January 2003 02:56 pm, brak23 wrote: > > I have Mandrake 9.0 and problems with resolution :-P. Actualy it is > > 800x600 but i want 1024x768. I tried to change it in Gnome Control Panel > > with no effects (it returns to 800x600). I have GF4Ti (but drivers for > > GeForce1 not generic, because it doesn work when i set it to GF4 generic > > - i don't know why), monitor samtron which does 100Hz in 1024x768, so > > what should i do ?? is it caused by drivers ?? raq > > I had the same problem. What I found out is that some of the PNP monitors > do not respond correctly when interrogated by the OS. When you set the > resolution to 1024X768 the monitor will incorrectly tell the OS that it > cannot do that resolution and the OS will default back to 800X600. Anyway.. > this is the problem that I had with my monitor. > So, goto Mandrake Control Center -> Hardware -> Monitor, > and select a generic monitor resolution that is compatible with your > monitor. (You may need the monitor specs to do this.) Then you can go to > the Resolution setting (same place) and select the higher resolution that > you want. > Hope this helps -- It fixed my problem. > David
My experience was very much the same. I had a wrong monitor selected. My model was not listed, Mdk had picked a likely one, but it was not the correct resolution. I chose a generic one of the correct resolution and everything was fine after that. Anne
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