Robert, I guess I was inexact. In order to use mail I had to reboot back to Mandrake and I couldn't remember the key sequence. I did exactly what you said and that is where it said that the machine was using a "generic" vga. And the Matrix selection only had G100/G400/Millenium cards for choiced not a G200. I was leary of trying any of this.
Cheers, /Pen On Thursday 17 January 2002 06:20 pm, Robert Black Eagle wrote: > But, (note to Joe), Solitaire still takes forever to load. > > As for your question, have you gone to "Configure Redmond Linux > --> Desktop Look and Feel --> Video Card" (requires system -- > root -- password). See if you can adjust it there and report > back. > > On Thursday 17 January 2002 7:21 am, Pen Gwynne wrote: > > Tried my first install of RedmondLinux tonight. Got a big > > kick out of the game of solitaire to play while the install is > > happening. Overall I found the install quite impressive. > > This is as compared to Mandrake 8.1, SUSe 7.1 and Debian (but > > *anything* is easier than Debian). > > > > During the install it detected my Matrox G200 card. I figured > > "fine, the install nailed the hardware." > > > > But after rebbot into X/KDE, the screen fonts look like > > garbage in the "natural" resolution of my 15" AOpen LCD panel > > which is 1024x768. > > > > The video tab of the configure dialog box tells me that it is > > running a generic VGA card. When I select "Matrox", I see > > G400, G100, Millenium, etc, but no G200. > > > > What's going on? > > > > Thanks and Cheers, > > /Pen > > - - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
