Re: [newbie] resolution

[Jason]

I offer 2 other possible solutions. If you get stuck and the display will not come up, run MCC from the cli and then you can do what you can from the graphical MCC. My only workable solution for my laptop was to run Knoppix on my laptop and then overwrite Mandrakes XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files with the Knoppix ones. Mandrake loaded the wrong driver and Knoppix used the better suited generic vesa driver which worked a treat. As a diagnostic tool it's hard to beat Knoppix I've found. Incidently Knoppix uses a modified Kudzu to detect/configure hardware thus my ongoing lament at the loss of Kudzu in Mandrake.

Regards,

Jason

David Williams wrote:

On Saturday 04 January 2003 05:46 pm, brak23 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
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OK but how to change it if Xwindow doesn't work ??
how to change it in console ??

Under MCC there is a test setting so that if your change doen't work, you can tell it no and MCC will reset the values back to what you started with.

Hopefully, someone more versed than I will respond here. But for what it is worth, I believe that if you end up with a problem and cannot get it to work under Xwindows that you can modify the "Section "Monitor""
in the XF86Config file in /etc/X11 directory.
Mine is currently set to Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Generic"
ModelName "1024x768 @ 70 Hz"
HorizSync 31.5-57.0
VertRefresh 50-70

David


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