On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> well someone suggested i play with the video settings to fix a problem with
> the windowson my linux
> the origional problem was everything was too large and changing the
> resolution had no effect
> so i was told to chang the color settings i plopped that sucker down to 256
> colors (8 bit) no change so i tried 640x520 lcd display, the result back to
> where i was 2 weeks ago when i said screw it and reinstalled linux, that was
> a mess so to avoid doing this does anyone have a suggestion and no editting
> xf86config is not an option considering it has no lcd displays available and
> it decided it was not going to go any further then the monitors before
> committing a total failure, something seems to be corrupted with the
> configurator,
> im running a toshiba satellite laptop
> 800x600 lcd display
> ati rage lt pro 4mb
> 64mb sdram
> 6 gig hard drive
> linux mandrake 7.1
> win 98 se
>
> please help
check your bios settings. i had this problem and thats what it was
